>>22148758See my image? I adopted this as a sort of self philosophy years ago. I found this image, fatefully, on the boards the same day I had a realization while driving. I saw a midget, a small person, walking down the street. I started laughing. Look at that little guy. Go back to the circus. And then a bolt from the blue, the realization that I don't know what possessed me to laugh and make fun, they have done nothing to me and done nothing to be that small. I felt guilt, shame. I made the decision to never give someone grief over something they have no control over. He was born this way and didn't ask for it, and has likely had a difficult life. All the people in this thread who have been speaking so ill of this boy should soak their heads. There's nothing that betrays the lack of empathy or emotional intelligence in someone than degrading disabled people for being disabled. The world just keeps getting meaner and frankly I don't care for it. It's easy to be mean, to be a bully. It takes a lot more to be kind, to meet people in the middle. I'm going to keep trying to do that, I know I'll be swamped and outnumbered. Sometimes the right thing isn't popular.
