The Right Kind of Wheels on Ramsay Street!
I interrupt this attempt at blogging about DisAbility to inform you, my lovely readers, that Neighbours in the UK has moved from BBC1 to channel Five after 23 years.
Now the real reason for this post. Miracles really do happen. It has brought a wheelchair with it! A wheelchair that is attached to a teenage boy called Josh, who, so far, doesn’t appear to have any hope of a miraculous recovery… or crutches. I love his character already, after he hilariously informed two mainstream teenage females today that “You guys are so brave because you don’t let your condition get you down!”
Classic. Okay, so these idiots thought he was “Hot… for a guy in a… you know…” and that ‘it’ (him being in a chair) was “a waste.” But then, nothing and no one can go from terrible to perfect overnight… At least the scriptwriters at Neighbours are finally making some effort to represent disability positively. I can only hope that it lasts. And that Josh, his wheelchair and his classic sense of humour stick around on Ramsay Street for a very long time to come…
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