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1. I was surprised that the Disability Awareness Merit badge was so rare if all it required was for them to interview someone with a disability.
2. Like talks about race and religion, people want to know more about a person's disability, but are too afraid to begin the conversation. Instead, we remain silent and create more misinformation or negativity.
3. I loved his perspective on how often we use 'I'm sorry' in regards to someone's disability and how we think its ok to feel bad when they dont.

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1. It is wonderful that the Boy Scouts offers a badge about disability awareness.
2. The disability taboo effects people with visual and non-visual disabilities.
3. The deficit-based list of misunderstandings about people with disabilities.

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1. There are over 1 billion individuals world wide with a disability.
2. People do not talk about disabilites out of fear or being rude.
3. We should use other words that do not have a negative connotation such as neurodiverse instead of crazy, stupid, insane, idiotic.

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1. Disability awareness is a merit badge and interviewing a person with a disability was part of this merit badge activity.
2. People are itching to talk about disability but they can't because they don't know how to start- Disability taboo.
3. Disability conversations and media definitions of disabilities can be negative- "Oh I am so sorry, you are such an inspiration" which are not helpful. Think about how often we use disabilities as insults- "crazy, stupid, idiotic, insane" are all slurs.

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1. People think that it is rude to ask about disabilities while those with disabilities would rather you ask questions than make up a story in your head.
2. There are 57Million Americans living with disabilities according to the US census.
3. There way disabilities are portrayed in the media in a negative light is really hurting those with disabilities. It is important to shed a positive light and show them as superheroes and more.

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1. People don’t talk about it out of fear. Ben calls it the disability taboo. He sees parents saying that “you can’t say that because it is rude.” Ben says if we can’t talk about it then we will remain misinformed.

2. It is seen as negative when people act as though people with disabilities are inspirations or as insults. Rare ones would be “crazy, stupid or idotic.”

3. It is wrong to tell disabled people that their self worth is when they can minimize their disability. That should not be seen as inspiration and is called “supercrip.”

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1)    I had never thought about the idea of “super-crip” where the success comes from overcoming a disability. We need to acknowledge that a disability is part of life, not something to be overcome, and that a person can be successful with a disability not despite a disability.

2)    Talking about disabilities is important – this should not be a hush-hush topic. I have been in situations where it seems rude to bring up a disability but that is part of the ableist culture.

3)    Representation is so important! There needs to be more disabled characters and representation in all of media.

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1.  Not talking about disabilities is the problem.  We need to make it the norm to ask questions and to become educated and tolerant.
2. Supercrip comments insinuate that those with disabilities have hurdles that they don't really have.  For example, simply because someone has a physical disability does not mean they have a mental disability.
3. We need to be more cognizant of negative slurs we are using in every day language (crazy, stupid, insane, etc.) as they are often offensive to those with disabilities.

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1. Supercrip comments are negative. It seems obvious when he uses his science fair example, but I never really thought about how that kind of comment can be negative.
2. Using such common words like "stupid, crazy, idiotic etc." and not realizing they are also slurs. We shouldn't use them.
3. We can change our language to be more neutral. I liked how he brought up the neuro-diversion example. We should try to use neutral etymology in everyday conversations.

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Three takeaways:
1. People are fearful about starting a conversation about disability. As Ben pointed out in the video, it is possibly due to a fear of offending the person (or people) with the disability. Just like other issues like racism and sexism, the conversation has to be conducted.
2. The news media portrayal of disabled people doing extraordinary things is flawed. The media tends to use language such as "this person despite being disabled was able to complete the marathon"; there is no reason to include the "despite being disabled" portion...just mention the accomplishment.
2. The use of language offensive to the disabled community is something that happens everyday. I hear the words crazy and stupid everyday, but as was stated in the video and in one of our readings, we have to choose our language carefully.

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1.) Ben pointing out that people are "itching to talk about disability". We should all step out and ask questions and stop living in fear.
2.) If we remain silent we are not helpful. It is okay to ignorant. Ask questions to learn.
3.) Stop saying sorry and start learning. Just saying sorry is not helpful for those who live with challenges. (I worked for the Texas Department of Aging and Disabilities and we used the word challenges instead of disabilities).

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Three takeaways:
1. Remaining silent and uncomfortable about disability isn't helpful. It's actually "detrimental" according to Ben.
2. There needs to be more representation of disability in main stream society. tens of millions of people have disabilities and portraying them will help young people become more inclusive.
3. The language surrounding disability is a key factor. Many words in our everyday language can be offensive without us even thinking too much about it. "Crazy, stupid, etc." are just a few examples Ben gave. I think most people use these words unconsciously, but we can do better as a society.

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1.  We often shut down curious conversation for fear of offending an individual with a disability.  If everyone could just see the world through the eyes of a child and ask questions as they had them, there would be more organic conversations about disabilities thus making questioning less taboo.
2. Media skews ideologies of the disabled.  There is this emphasis on "overcoming" a disability when the disability often doesn't have much to do with the outcome of the situation.  It is very much scripted in a disability before person approach when really it should be about the accomplishments of the individual.
3. We can fix this. As Ben was talking about including cartoon characters in mainstream cartoons, it actually made me realize that this change is already happening. Mattel own both Barbie and American Girl and they have already started creating and selling products that represent females of all ability and I think that is a really great step in the right direction!

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1. Disability taboo - fear of talking about disabilities. Let's talk about disabilities together
2. Remaining silent is detrimental - this is where fear and negative images begin to grow and spread
3. Media portrays people with a disability in a negative manner, we need to change the narrative and vocabulary.

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Three takeaways:

1. Involving the disabled person in leading an activity to result in a reward is a great way to show the individual is valuable-- and disabilities just make us a bit different.

2. Talking about disability is helpful when it focuses on how to help someone with a disability in a positive way.

3. It is everyone's responsibility to adjust their communication to that of supportive and helpful.  Do not use language such as "overcoming the disability" to be successful.

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3 Takeaways:
(1) Silence is compliance when addressing exceptionality.
(2) The language used to discuss individuals with exceptionality matters.
(3) Exceptionality tropes only further damage the living experience of those with exceptionalities.