This post does a good job of showing why I think religion often encourages people to treat those of us with disabilities badly. If someone thinks people are heroes for having to put up with us, they are simultaneously declaring themselves infinitely superior to us and congratulating themselves for their own kindness. It turns my stomach. Bigotry hurts most, not when it comes with hatred, but when it comes from people who believe they can love you and think you are less than them simultaneously. Elizabeth Scalia: Dilshad D. Ali, and Shana Buck, and Elizabeth Husted Duffy, all writing with exquisite beauty, and more than a little naked pain, about the work of raising a child (or several) falling within the “Autism Spectrum”, and how it challenges everything. It challenges their love; it challenges their faith; it sows tares of doubt throughout the family and within themselves, doubt that must be continually weeded back with a firm outreach of love. Heroic Moses endured a few conversations with God, and he could barely be looked upon. These parents, and the ones like them all over the world, do a face-to-face with God every single day. They have earned the awe and respect we reserve for heroes. Contempt, masked as love.
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 16:33:14 +0000
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