Notes from Disability Lesson

Notes:

• depends on the disability.
• dependant on others.
• brave.
• sympathy.
• awkwardness.
• we feel lucky.
• don't want to patronise them, feel uncomfortable.
• they cant help it.
• unsure on how to behave around them.

Famous Disabled People:

• Heather Mills (1 leg)
• Stephen Hawkins (wheelchair, motor neurone)
• Gordon Brown (1 eye)
• Stevie Wonder (blind)
• Verne Troyer (dwarfism)
• Muhammad Ali (Parkinson's)
• Albert Einstein (autistic)
• Michael J Fox (Parkinson's)
• Motzart (deaf)

Hollywood Films/actors in disabled roles:

• Rainman (Dustin Hoffman)
• Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks)
• My Left Foot (Daniel Day Lewis)
• I Am Sam (Sean Penn)
• Born On The 4th Of July (Tom Cruise)
• Waterboy (Adam Sandler)
• 50 First Dates (Drew Barrymore)
• Unbreakable (Samuel L Jackson)
• Million Dollar  Baby (Hilary Swank)