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*sigh* Sorry, but I don't want to let annoyances build up in my head again, like I've been doing, these last couple of weeks.
I just went to Google for something,* and I saw this teaser with link, below Google's search window:
Kids with autism express their creativity in 3D. Follow Project Spectrum by Google.
Hello?! A lot of kids without autism also express their creativity in 3D. I just hate this casual, almost automatic, segregation of disabled people into one catagory for "abnormal" people, while everyone else, regardless of how diverse or unusual they are in other ways, gets to be "normal." I especially hate it when the attitude is applied to kids, because kids use the attitudes of the culture around them as a scaffold on which to build their own self-image. And this casual othering is done more to kids than to adults. Because children are such special little snowflakes, and are easy to use as triggers for pity.
A better way to have phrased the teaser would have been:
3D expression helps many kids with autism. Follow Project Specturm by Google.
Hmm. I wonder where to send this complaint to the person who wrote that teaser for Google...
*(an online program called "Write or die," that many people swore by, last NaNo [ETA: Found it! Doctor Wicked's Writing Lab -- Write or Die!)
ETA 2: Yay! we can now put HTML in our subject lines! I don't have to emphesize with asterisks, any more.
I just went to Google for something,* and I saw this teaser with link, below Google's search window:
Kids with autism express their creativity in 3D. Follow Project Spectrum by Google.
Hello?! A lot of kids without autism also express their creativity in 3D. I just hate this casual, almost automatic, segregation of disabled people into one catagory for "abnormal" people, while everyone else, regardless of how diverse or unusual they are in other ways, gets to be "normal." I especially hate it when the attitude is applied to kids, because kids use the attitudes of the culture around them as a scaffold on which to build their own self-image. And this casual othering is done more to kids than to adults. Because children are such special little snowflakes, and are easy to use as triggers for pity.
A better way to have phrased the teaser would have been:
3D expression helps many kids with autism. Follow Project Specturm by Google.
Hmm. I wonder where to send this complaint to the person who wrote that teaser for Google...
*(an online program called "Write or die," that many people swore by, last NaNo [ETA: Found it! Doctor Wicked's Writing Lab -- Write or Die!)
ETA 2: Yay! we can now put HTML in our subject lines! I don't have to emphesize with asterisks, any more.
