Text to Self

I feel this is actually more common than not, many people do not take the time to understand disabilities. However, I really want to work with children with disabilities so I try to take the time to truly understand someone's disability in order to be respectful, but also understand them to some capacity.

Text to Text

As soon as I started reading I noticed right away "disabled people." This caught my attention because it reminded me of the reading we had towards the beginning of the semester on correct and incorrect terminology; People-first language and Identity first language. In this case it is incorrect/outdated terminology, using identity-first language instead of person first identity such as; "People with disabilities."

Text to World

This reminds me a lot about hat we learn on social media from people all around the world. Yes, we can make genuine friends, but we also follow "influencers" from anywhere and everywhere in the world. It is our way of making different connections with new people, while also gaining information quickly about world events that news stations often do not cover.