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Disability Awareness Month: Fitting In Vs. Belonging

Thursday, October 13, 2016

Hi you guys. I have another great post for you today for my month long focus on Disability Awareness. I’d like you to meet my amazing friend Stasia and her daughter Raisa. Not only have I featured Stasia and Raisa before on my special needs spotlight, but Stasia is an amazing style coach who helps...

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Girlmore Girls Fan-Fest

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Some of you may know that I’m a die-hard Gilmore Girls fan. I love the premise, I love the writing, I love the acting, I love the setting… I love it all! To this day when I’m jonesing for a New York fix I put an episode of Gilmore Girls on in the background and...

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Final Bathroom Reveal

Monday, October 10, 2016

So happy to be finally doing a full bathroom reveal! It was a stressful process for me and a steep learning curve. I love a lot of different design styles out there and was nervous about committing to permanent choices and making decisions for every little thing. One of the reasons I’ve never wanted to...

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Special Needs Spotlight || Taylor

Friday, October 7, 2016

Hi there! My name is Leila and I am 16 years old. I have two parents; Debbie and Michael as well as an older sister named Nola. I’m also a twin to my favorite person in the world; Taylor. Taylor has autism and is non verbal but inspires me everyday and I love him with...

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Make || Marbleized Mini Pumpkins

Thursday, October 6, 2016

Looking for an easy Halloween craft that won’t cost you a lot in either time or money? I think these beautiful and simple marbleized mini pumpkins fit the bill perfectly. And as long as you’ve got some nail polish remover handy, they’re pretty kid friendly too. If you’ve never marbleized with nail polish before, you’ll...

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A Conversation about Ableism

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Hi guys! Miggy here. So excited to have Rebekah back to share more thoughts on disability awareness and more specifically, on ableism. Rebekah was one of my all time favorite and most popular spotlightees ever–you can read her interview here. She is a phenomenal writer and even after 6 years of special needs parenting, 5...

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BeckyOctober 5, 2016 - 4:11 pm
I love this. I have learned so much from the special needs spotlights, but I still find it difficult on how to approach it with my kids. I think many well meaning people (myself included) end up teaching their kids what Rebekah is saying misses the point–"we are all the same." We aren't. Being different (abled, races, whatever) isn't bad, but sometimes we get so uncomfortable about saying/doing the wrong thing, that we gloss over it all in an effort not to offend–but ignoring differences in itself is offensive. There is an article on Cup of Jo this week about race that points out the same thing–teaching our kids that we are all the same implies that there are not different challenges or experiences for people based on race (or disability). Thank you to Rebekah for her brilliant article and to Miggy for opening my eyes every week. ReplyCancel
AngelaOctober 5, 2016 - 11:28 pm
Bravo for being willing to wrestle with the "shifty little monster" (love the phrasing). I boiled over last week at the news story about the boy in NJ. This kid was flooded with cards after his dad posted a photo & story on facebook about the boy writing "no one" was his friend (on a school worksheet). The boy sounded a lot like one of my kids…and I am here to say that cards and notes do not solve the problem of no one playing with you at recess, or ever EVER choosing to sit by you in the classroom, etc. And yet I know my friends thought I was nuts (and incredibly picky and judgmental and uncaring) when I said these things over lunch.

When will we wake up and treat people like people, not as a condition or a color or a (insert any of the zillions of descriptors here)? Everyone needs a friend. Everyone needs to belong, somewhere, to someone, to something. Everyone needs to help and be helped. Every.single.one.of.us. How the heck could anyone be anything but GRATEFUL if you held the door for them? Good grief. But I get so tired of the incredibly narrow mindsets we can't seem to escape. Oh, humanity…please let us write a new script (sorry for the rant).ReplyCancel
AnonymousOctober 6, 2016 - 7:15 am
Thank you for this spotlight. It is so well-written. I think it could be one of the NYTimes.com weekly essays on disability. Check out the current one. When I try to paste the link here, it becomes three lines of mumbo jumbo.
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JillOctober 6, 2016 - 2:13 pm
Thank you so much for posting this amazing article. I found myself nodding at so many points she made. I have so far to go in dispelling my own 'abelistic' judgements and tendencies. It IS so ingrained and subversive in our culture that it is there without us knowing it! But having a child with his own disability shattered many of my illusions. I used to be uncomfortable around people with disabilities; now I see them as human beings. It's as simple as that — they are persons, each their own individual, and deserve to be treated just like that! Rebekah put into words the exact feeling and thoughts that I've been thinking since my son was diagnosed — the weird feelings of being a charity case, feeling guilty for being a burden, sensing that people are being kind because they feel sorry for us, and then feeling guilty for resenting that kindness, finding that parents are uncomfortable when their kids ask questions and then shushing them, which reinforces that stigma… Anyway, this needs to be said. Thank you to Rebekah for saying it so eloquently! ReplyCancel
UnknownOctober 7, 2016 - 2:32 pm
Thank you for this! It's struck me recently that "ableism" is only a small piece of a larger mindset, encapsulating meritocracy, the Prosperity Gospel, Libertarianism, and Reaganomics. The ideology goes that the truly deserving people are those who make it "on their own" without needing any "help". It's at heart a dog-eat-dog mindset, in which the "weak" are seen as contemptible.

Of course, no one ever really makes it on their own; it's just that the kind of help some people receive isn't really acknowledged as "help" in our culture. This explains how sons of privilege like Donald Trump can claim to be "self made men", and a significant segment of the public buys it. ReplyCancel
MeganOctober 7, 2016 - 8:21 pm
I love love love this. This is something I think about often and I always appreciate someone expanding the dialogue and giving me more to think about. Rebekah has a beautiful way of turning ordinary words into thought-provoking magic. Thanks a million for this post and for providing a platform for meaningful discussion!ReplyCancel
Victoria BlanchardOctober 8, 2016 - 1:00 am
Wow, this was great! Thanks, Rebekah, for writing it and Miggy for sharing it. ReplyCancel

Happy Disability Awareness Month

Monday, October 3, 2016

Happy October! Happy Disability Awareness Month! Yes that’s right one of the very best months of the year is also Disability Awareness Month. You guys, I’m so excited, I have some great stuff planned for this month along the lines of guest posts and giveaways (follow me on instagram at thislittlemiggy to learn more about...

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