My Experience with Disabilities and My Thoughts on "inspiration porn"
Hello readers, welcome and thank you for tuning in to my first ever blog post on this page. The topics I will be discussing is my personal experiences with disabilities and my thoughts on people with disabilities being used for "inspiration porn." First, I will be discussing my personal experience with having a reading disability. Then, I will breakdown what "inspiration porn" is and my reaction to people with disabilities being used for it. It was when I was in 2nd grade that it had been determined by my teacher that I had some sort of reading disability. After this I started to get pulled out once a day during class to see a reading/learning specialist at the school. The reading specialist confirmed that I did indeed have a reading disability and was reading far below a "normal" reading level for my age (Figure 1). As well as difficulty focusing on what my teachers were teaching with outside noises coming from surrounding classmates (Figure 1)...