Hey, I was a poster child and I enjoyed it.

--- Rayna Lamb <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> YUUUUUCKKKK!!!  This show sounds horrendous, I do
> hope it is one show
> that Australia won't import from the US.  I would be
> curious as to how
> long this show would last on the box.
>
> And as far as the days of sideshows and freakshow
> and the disabled
> being exploited by them returning, I don't know that
> they ever left.
> I think society just covered it up by renaming them,
> Telethons and
> Appealathons.  They get to stare at us, and at the
> same time they have
> the warm fuzzy feeling that they are helping `the
> less fortunate'.
> Just a way of them justifying their pruient
> attitudes.  It is a
> socially acceptable form of voyeurism.  Charity
> organisations are just
> big freakshows, except now, instead of the least
> physically `normal'
> of us being exibited, they use cute young kids as
> `poster children'.
> And for the amount of times I'm openly stared at and
> pointed at on the
> street every day, I'd say we are all still in a
> gigantic freakshow,
> only the public aren't paying.  I got stopped by
> some tourists one day
> who wanted me to take a photo of them next to my
> scooter!!!  I told
> them to get lost of course.
>
> Rayna