Story of the Day 2/ 10/ 2012

Another story which required an unusually long time to get permission to post:


Sarah is working on a group project in her Film and Animation class.
That means that she is working as part of a group.
As is usual, in these situations, group work involves things like "discussions".

The discussion, today, included talking about one of the characters in a video that they are developing. The character is a young man with Autism.
As part of the story, he needs to have car keys, or, at least, appear to have been driving a car.

One of the other students in the group didn't like this.
"Autistic people can't drive!"

"What do you mean Autistic people can't drive? " Sarah replied, "They can, just like people who have Learning Disabilities or are Deaf can drive!"

"Deaf people can't drive!"

"Deaf people can drive!", replied Sarah with great self-assurance.

The other girl was stunned. "They let Deaf people drive? But they can't hear horns!"
Sarah tried not to roll her eyes.
" There is nothing important involved with hearing horns. Most of the time, people who honk are just being obnoxious. And you can see flashing lights , in the case of an ambulance or firetruck."
The other girl sat there.
Stunned.

And for the first time in months, Sarah is feeling eager to hurry up and get her driver's license.
So the next time someone makes a dumb comment like this , she can pull her license out and stick it under their nose.