Tuesday, May 02, 2006

"We're human too..."

That was Donna talking tonight before she went to sleep. We were talking about how society tends to discard people like Donna. We put them in institutions and 'sheltered workshops' where they are isolated from the general public for most of the time. Sadly, in some cases people like Donna are abandoned even by their own families. "We've got feelings too." "I'm not a piece of garbage", she said. Then she told me about all the times she cried over people laughing at her speech impediment...not just kids in the neighborhood when she was young, but adults, too...when she was working at the mall and at a nursing home. It is so horrible to hear her talk about these things. How can people abandon another human being because they require extra care? And even worse, how can they react with cruelty to someone as vulnerable as Donna? Who can answer these questions?

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