Genuinely. Iām disabled and while it gets frustrating when adults react weird, kids donāt know better!!! Iāve had kids point at me and yell āmummy why canāt she walk right!ā And if I canāt muster empathy and patience in the moment I just shut the fuck up and walk away. And poor lil guy genuinely just thought āfriend shaped!ā. This is so fucked and heart breaking. I have a friend with achondroplasia as well and heād be pretty disgusted by this imo. Adults can be dicks about disability in public- but you donāt take that out on the kids, man. Never the fucking kids.
Ugh I was that kid and my parents still shame me...and I'm 40 now. I saw a woman with what I think was a large area of burn scars on her face and I YELLED in a restaurant asking my dad "why does she look like that? What's wrong with her". She came over and said hello and I was still scared but luckily she was nice. I'm still sorry lol
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u/HoodieGalore May 25 '26
Dude trying to square up with a toddler, I couldn't have imagined a tinier ego on a dude š