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Timely for me, I just watched the new documentary series on Disney+. It did a really interesting job of presenting the original story, the revised story, and then the rebuttal to the revisions. Lots of opinions and perspectives presented.

😮sppeaking soo fasttt

We shouldn’t be surprised the world isn’t fair. It’s oppressive because the world was conquered by oppressors in the past. Power has only passed through the hands of oppressors. The system is inherently meant to abuse people for profit. There is no bettering it. The harsh truth is you either adapt to win or you suffer in loss.

That was so cute at the beginning. Love the stimming

"Cheesy, formerly on Wattpad romances" 😂 Hilarious!

One of the only things I remember strongly from Next to Normal was how horrified I was at Dan in act two. I didn't feel like the show did enough to confirm that he was WRONG to try and keep Diana's past from her. That he was putting his comfort over her identity. He didn't come off as panicked or otherwise irrational, just selfish. So I appreciate you touching on that.

An 1899 strike you say..?

Lars and the Real Girl is my favorite movie. I’ve actually witnessed a similar situation play out in real life. A friend’s autistic son had zero engagement with other children until he got a bird plushy he considered real and his son. People would address the bird as if it were a real child and my friend’s son would speak for the bird. “Birdie says hi back.” Birdie was his entrance to lower stakes engagement with others. Twenty five years later, he still believes Birdie is a real person, people still engage with the father/son days, AND he also engages with and has direct relationships with others; he’s not merely a mouthpiece for Birdie. It’s a beautiful way our community accepted a child for who he was, engaged with him on terms that made him feel safe, and gave him the social space to grow at his own pace. I live that a film captures Stine of the magic that can happen when a community embraces and values people as they are.

Thank you for your work! I really appreciate the nuance you brought to this subject.

I read and enjoyed the lunar chronicles, but it never occured to me to think about it through the lens of disability...I guess I wasn't thinking about such things when I was in middle school. You make me want to reread it sometime.

I love the streaming ticket idea! In addition to the access needs you mentioned, it could also help with certain sensory needs. I find that many shows/events are way too loud for me, so being able to stream through my own device and have complete volume control would help a lot!

I think you should watch ‘An Angel at My Table’ - I saw it years ago before I even really knew what autism was and it just popped into my head that the protagonist is autistic. And it’s really jam packed with the themes you’re interested In.

Good review, but I think the part about the service dog is the bit. I'd be willing to embrace the movie magic about.

Tommy is probably the only movie that traumatized me. We watched like twenty minutes of it in primary school when I was 12 and seeing a severely disabled person being abused like that whilst they sung I literally could not sleep that night by myself. Who is saying this is good representation?

Pandora started playing "What the World Needs" for some reason a while ago; it took a while for the words to register0

So hype to watch this let’s GO

is "no good deed is my favorite song of the show" really such a hot take?? never realized since i feel the same lolol eleka nahmen nahmen ah tum ah tum eleka nahmen motherfucker!!!!!!!!!!!!!

watching this as i do my 30 page math essay #wishmeluck

Honestly, I always interpreted Christine as having saw beyond the Phantom’s disability and being put off by the phantom’s behavior specifically, especially with the line during Down Once More where she states “It’s in your soul the true distortion lies”. I agree with the angle that the Phantom should’ve been a character that wanted connection and to be seen rather than another romantic interest for Christine. It makes much more sense and is also much less uncomfortable than him having romantic feelings for Christine. The love triangle is off putting, especially in productions that don’t have Raoul as morally grey. As for the Phantom being musically gifted, I always interpreted this as being both just something he would’ve done anyway out of interest, rather than out of his own trauma. I wasn’t even aware that people interpreted it like that. I started typing this before the conversation about freak shows and honestly, delving into the history and the ethics of if Erik having ‘prodigious’ talent in music is really because he was interested is interesting considering the time period. It’s also interesting to see the argument on Erik most likely having congenital syphillis or a mix of that and malnutrition, it definitely sounds incredibly plausible. This entire video is incredibly interesting, I have a hardcore fixation on POTO and tbh I like to interpret the story in a slightly modern lens where it isn’t the version that most phandom members on tumblr would salivate over. At least I’d hope to see a version of this story where Erik being disabled isn’t the reason why Christine separates herself from him, without the age gap, and giving more room for Erik to not just be the two extremes.

I watched the slime tutorial today after seeing the WiTW documentary and my thought was damn, what a missed opportunity to have a canon character use ASL on stage during group musical numbers not as accompaniment but as part of the in-universe choir.

I feel like his reasoning for dropping out of the competition is really easy to solve. Like if he’s spent his whole life knowing he’s going to die young,possibly in a very isolating and/or painful way he might feel content with how he died. An additive of well if I was already going to die young this is a hell of a lot cooler way to go than slowly dying in a hospital bed. Like idk give him some excitement over being able to give the disabling illness people defined him by the finger by getting a badass tragic death instead of the mundane one he was constantly aware was just around the corner. Pull some of that punk rock energy into his attitude about the accident. Or even make him someone who loved rollercoasters and it’s a “I literally died doing the thing I love why would I want to give life another shot I got it in one” He’s happy because the cyclone accident ensures his memory isn’t of just another kid who died from a degenerative disease but instead as the teenage victim of a freak accident who had a life and interests outside of his cause of death. And sure his disability will always be apart of him but it doesn’t get to define him. It’s a death that gives him an identity outside of his illness something that was denied to him by the way society treated him. Also he didn’t die alone like he feared he went out with people he can by the end of the play call his friends. He can point out the positive sides of the accident to other characters serving to help convince them to be selfless and accept their deaths. For example “hey I’m sure our parents will get a fuckton of money from the park because of the accident” which then can open up to a bit about how wrongful death suits are hard to win and that they probably won’t win much but hey it’s a possibility. If the show writers really feel like they have to explain away his ability to speak with the “being cured in death” trope they could just as easily add Constance being able to see without her glasses. Like you have the opurtunity for prop comedy with Constance loosing her glasses realizing she doesnt need them and Ricky speaking this thoughts aloud and them both screaming at each other because “holy fuck what is this place and what happened to us”. Constance decides to keep wearing her glasses because she feels weird without them and have Ricky keep his mobility aid(s) for the same reason. Like they agree that seeing Constance without her glasses is just a little too weird and seeing Ricky without his cane/crutches/chair evokes a similar feeling in him and the group as a whole. Obviously that wouldn’t be the ideal way to go l but I feel like it’s better than what they did. I agree the internal monologue solution is the better way to go but I just wanted to point out how easy it is to change the story’s original method to be funnier and more inclusive. I don’t know if I worded this 100% right but I did my best and tried to pull from my personal experience with chronic illness and facing death constantly at a young age (mine was more a either myself or society will get me killed before I’m 16. I revived help and am in my 20’s and happily living life)

Great video, you're so cool!! :) I hope yannick-robin is okay with being in the thumbnail!! bro must be having a wild weekend...#saverickypotts

After seeing the WITW documentary, I really want to see the musical, but hope those with disabilities get proper representation. As someone with autism, it upsets me when media and even those behind productions, whether film or theatre, treat people with disabilities with blatant disrespect and refuse to do much of anything to make things easier (The Good Doctor,, The Accountsnt and Sia's Music are grand examples to me in terms of autistic representation done wrong). I hope that the world realizes we're more than our disabilities.

love this vid, also idk if itd be a too strange or not doable idea, but ive always loved the idea of stylaphone usage for Ricky, ive seen ones that can 'sing' based around vocaloids and with the right vowles/words for the songs being pre-programmed a disabled actor who had time to work with one could give a really cool performance using maybe that mixed with an AAC device, and would definately add to the space age feeling. idk how practical it would be but i feel like including disabled people in theatre should mean getting creative and working With someone's disability to make the show something unique rather than trying to find ways to justify just not casting us.

I just finished blasting through this series after remembering this video and I am so glad I did!! I just looked the main actor up, their name is Emily Carey and they are also autistic themselves! This was so healing for me to watch as a femme-adjacent actor who started self-identifying as autistic a few years ago, I also hope they create more seasons. Now I’m trying to decide whether to wait on another season or just read the whole series haha thank you again for the rec

the way all my rejection emails from even ameteure dramatics since i became disabled all seem to include a 'we want to be a super inclusive space for everyone and strive to represent people :D' tagline somewhere lol, in the part of the world im in with my language skills I can only really audition in non disabled spaces anyway (english speaking theatre is its own speciality here and finding something that is both things at once is pretty much impossible) and the way their faces drop if they see my cane or walker is actually painful, they decide For you what youre capable of even if youve already shown you can do the things they require. And its so hard to talk about being blocked out of this space as a disabled person not only because you get pointed to disability exclusive spaces but also because you will always be met with 'well maybe you just suck' when I know how differently I am treated before and after people discover Im disabled and know how my experience with theatre was before I became disabled

love this video! also adding on to christmas carol, I hate how his two futures are 'dead as a small child' or 'complete recovery' because god forbid disability just be a lifelong thing and Tim grow into a disabled adult with his own ambitions and life without being seen as some burdon, I know they don't go very deep into the epilogue because its not the structure of the story but that part of the ending has always peeved me

ARE YOU TELLING ME THAT I WAS ACCUSED OF MBP BECAUSE I’M AUTISTIC, AND THUS NATURALLY SPEAK ABOUT MEDICAL SYMPTOMS AND DIAGNOSES LIKE I’M READING FROM A TEXTBOOK?! ARE YOU KIDDING ME. This explains a LOT. I thought if I do my research, if we build a case, then maybe my partner’s chronic illness will be taken seriously. Little did I know I was making it more difficult for a biased, neurotypical doctor to understand our very real plight for medical care.

As someone who is a sole caregiver of a medically complex person, I feel so uncomfortable when a medical professional hears this person’s symptoms and experience and then turns to me and praises me for all the work that must require. Um wtf I’m a fly on the wall, this is their appointment. If I need validation, I can get a therapist. Ick

Can't watch all of this right now but I am SO GLAD that WITW reminded me of your channel! Notifs are now on and hopefully you get a well desevrwd boost!!!

Also yes same disability romance novels can be really therapeutic!

BIG AGREE on 'my favorite thing is the most recent thing I've seen' , glad it's not just me!

Love the idea of updating or commenting on older videos/ideas, it's nice to have updates! Bc understanding is always evolving. Thanks for sharing

It´s so nice how you say "Gestalt". I realy like it. Greetings from Germany.

52:35 probably because one of the Delancey brothers is already named Morris 💀 Edit: although ykw that could have some great comedic potential

NEWSIES LET'S GO

Thank you for this. This explains a lot about me.

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Blue Eye Samuri had pretty good disability resprisentation. There's a character with a stutter, though he only shows up for a couple episodes. They do make the major disabled character the comic relief, but the series still respects him enough to give him an arc.

Ayda Aguefort literally made me realize I might be autistic. I'm getting evaluated now

(barring the TECHNICAL pedantic "not until you're licensed with PhD..." challenge to it) No wonder I relate to so much of how you're wording things and framing it: (0:52) "because I'm a psychologist* and a linguist* and this is precisely the cross-section of those two things..." Ahhh, okay, yup, so, "me" basically. (also combined with multi-instrument advanced-level musician) I spent so much of the previous video I listened (watched) through trying to piece together why SO much of what you said sounded basically exactly like me, both in prosody/speed but also in phrasing, terminology, and concepts/angles of illustrating points. It sounds like our brains are likely somewhere around the same 'location' on the proverbial 'spectrum'

Solid points arount 17:30 about how many of us are offing ourselves because the system is so godawful It's so awesome seeing other people put words to exactly how I think and feel; finding those words "for me" SOLID points

Great points around 14:30 about how our thoughts are NOT irrational or unjustified, but really, truly genuinely rooted in lots of past experience and even e.g. statistics (like of our unemployment rate or unhoused rate) And how we're like 100% all of us traumatized. Ugh. It sucks so much

Normalize stimming! We should all feel welcome to move our bodies!

Thank you for the extra description cuz im visually impaired

I thought it said this was posted three years ago and I was like how does such an amazing video that has been accessible for so long have so few views? Then I realized I read it wrong 😭😭