"I gained eyes." What a powerful statement. Thank you for sharing this. May God open my eyes to not just see the need but anticipate it and provide for and defend those who cannot do it for themselves.
This is RJ Mitte. He was in one of my favorite television shows of all time: Breaking Bad. Mitte played the son of the main character, a teenage boy named Walter White, Jr. Jr. is an interesting young man, who also happens to have cerebral palsy. At first, I thought this actor was incredible, because his portrayal of a disability I was familiar with was awesome. I'm ashamed to say, I assumed he was a typically abled person. He's not, Mitte has cerebral palsy, and started his career in modeling! This guy is Sebastien Rene. He played a severely disabled boy in the movies Starbuck and the American version, Delivery Man. While the disability this boy has in the movie is not labeled, I get the impression that his is a more severe cerebral palsy. Rene's portrayal of disability was so impressive, actually, the producer, Steven Spielberg, wanted him to come back from the French Canadian production and reprise his role in the American film....
Let's face it, finding a job these days is quite a feat for everyone! Try adding a very visible, physical Diverse Ability and you've got a mountain to climb. I want to run today's Tuesday Truth as a real Q & A session, so I will answer ALL your questions regarding my experience as a person with Diverse Abilities in the workplace until 11:59pm tonight!! No question is stupid and if you're thinking it, there are at least 100 other people wondering the same thing... If you are unable to post your question directly on the blog, then please post it in the comments on Facebook or email me at amanda.frantz21@gmail.com! I'll be re-posting your questions and my replies here for everyone to see!! Every person who asks a question will be entered into a raffle to be drawn at Midnight!! The prize is unbeatable ;-) READY, SET, ASK!
America was once cutting edge, politically, technologically, socially. That hasn't been true for the better part of a century. Sure, we still have a huge technological step up to the world around us, and our entertainment is still cutting edge, but even that is waning. Our legal system is so slow, and so corrupt, that we're playing with technologies there are no laws for. When FDR started building the interstate highway system, he was in a unique position to coordinate the entire nation's efforts toward a single goal, something that he had already done with WWII. In it's day, the interstate network was cutting edge. The technology exists, today, to replace all standard pavement with an electronic smart pavement that would not only allow city planners to change the signage on the road itself, and use electric heat so that no one would ever have to plow ever again, but could use solar energy to generate three times more energy than the whole country cur...
"I gained eyes." What a powerful statement. Thank you for sharing this. May God open my eyes to not just see the need but anticipate it and provide for and defend those who cannot do it for themselves.
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