As a person with cerebral palsy, this talk is fantastic and way overdue. I wish more ablebodied folks would take a moment to consider what movie portrayal of disabilities does to their perception of real disabled people. Doesn't mean you can't love the movies and even love the tropes (most of the movies mentioned here are moderately-to-wildly popular with us, too!)... but disabled folks tend to have that "hey, wait a minute," discussion afterwards, whereas I rarely see it from ablebodied folks.
Love hearing this cat talk. I'm an aspie (have Asperger syndrome), and one of the side effects is thinking Bérubé doesn't doesn't talk to fast. My brain works very fast and jumps around a lot. Same way Michael talks. If he talks to fast for you (he does for a lot of people), there is a speed control on RUclips. Go to the little gear in the bottom right of the video, click it, and go to "Playback Speed." I usually use it to speed up slow talkers, but if you scroll up on it, there are options to play back slower than normal.
Saili, the term "cure" is directly from X-men The Last Stand (2006). That was the term used by the characters in the movie, Mr. Berube was just quoting directly from the source. Thank you for making these connections, Mr. Berube!
+Lauren Ben You are very welcome, and thanks for the backup! If anyone should think I am OK with the idea of curing disabilities, there is always this handy reference: crookedtimber.org/2010/01/14/mighty-moloch-cure-me-of-my-severe-allergy-to-the-discourse-of-the-cure/
Mr. Berube, I found the talk very interesting and you did strike important points about the ubiquitous presence of people with disabilities through popular media. However, I noticed your use of "cure" and "medical" diagnosis throughout the talk and can only assume this is the view on disabilities which you take. Those of us in the field attempt to move away from these concepualizations towards disability as a social construction--something devised by society to disable.
The speech is not a inclusive. Fast and without legends, and I ask myself...Sometimes the discourse about disability its just a rhetorical and a political personal project to promote, in someway, the emergence of intellectuals around the world... Its really sad...
+Carolina Teixeira I am sorry I speak so quickly. But captions/legends were, of course, out of my control. That was in the hands of the TedX organizers. As for my personal project, it has everything to do with my son, Jamie, who has Down syndrome.
As a person with cerebral palsy, this talk is fantastic and way overdue. I wish more ablebodied folks would take a moment to consider what movie portrayal of disabilities does to their perception of real disabled people. Doesn't mean you can't love the movies and even love the tropes (most of the movies mentioned here are moderately-to-wildly popular with us, too!)... but disabled folks tend to have that "hey, wait a minute," discussion afterwards, whereas I rarely see it from ablebodied folks.
Love hearing this cat talk.
I'm an aspie (have Asperger syndrome), and one of the side effects is thinking Bérubé doesn't doesn't talk to fast. My brain works very fast and jumps around a lot. Same way Michael talks.
If he talks to fast for you (he does for a lot of people), there is a speed control on RUclips.
Go to the little gear in the bottom right of the video, click it, and go to "Playback Speed."
I usually use it to speed up slow talkers, but if you scroll up on it, there are options to play back slower than normal.
awesome, as always, Michael.
he brings up some interesting point that are easily overlooked....
Captions, please.
Saili, the term "cure" is directly from X-men The Last Stand (2006). That was the term used by the characters in the movie, Mr. Berube was just quoting directly from the source.
Thank you for making these connections, Mr. Berube!
+Lauren Ben You are very welcome, and thanks for the backup! If anyone should think I am OK with the idea of curing disabilities, there is always this handy reference: crookedtimber.org/2010/01/14/mighty-moloch-cure-me-of-my-severe-allergy-to-the-discourse-of-the-cure/
Mr. Berube, I found the talk very interesting and you did strike important points about the ubiquitous presence of people with disabilities through popular media. However, I noticed your use of "cure" and "medical" diagnosis throughout the talk and can only assume this is the view on disabilities which you take. Those of us in the field attempt to move away from these concepualizations towards disability as a social construction--something devised by society to disable.
There are alot of truths in fiction books and movies etc
Interesting but can he talk any faster?
Autism isn't an intelectual disability...
The speech is not a inclusive. Fast and without legends, and I ask myself...Sometimes the discourse about disability its just a rhetorical and a political personal project to promote, in someway, the emergence of intellectuals around the world... Its really sad...
+Carolina Teixeira I am sorry I speak so quickly. But captions/legends were, of course, out of my control. That was in the hands of the TedX organizers. As for my personal project, it has everything to do with my son, Jamie, who has Down syndrome.
RUclips already accommodates that!
I posted a comment on this video about how to slow down videos of fast speakers. (Or speed up slow speakers.)