1. Lesson 3- Perspective taking-Inspiration porn
“Over the years we have seen media stories of disabled people climbing mountains, trekking in the jungles or across polar icecaps and sailing the stormy seas. In order to do so they are happy to reinforce stereotypical media imagery of disabled people and become the modern day ’tiny Tim's’ in the eyes of other disabled people who feel such imagery should be challenged rather than embraced” (Oliver, 2009, p. 24)
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2. Activity
For the first activity a picture will appear. I want you to pay attention to your visual focus when you see this picture.
In other words- What do you see first?
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4. So where was your focus. The first thing you saw was. The second
So where was your focus? The first thing you saw was? The second? The third? The forth?
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5. Plato’s allegory of the cave
Plato’s allegory- suppose all your life you lived in a cave. The only light is from a fire. What you see are shadows. Let’s also suppose you emerge from the cave. Outside the cave you see blue sky, green grass, trees, and lakes. You return to the cave to tell all of your friends. Would they believe your story of the outside world? Question
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6. As we have learned in the first lesson of perspective taking about Martin Buber’s I-thou and I-it, we have to be aware of our assumptions and lived experiences. This is known as Plato’s allegory of the cave. Plato’s cave is our experiences of our lives. When we are in the cave we have to remember that what we know can bias us as to what we do not know. Therefore, assumptions can appear because of the cave. There can be assumptions of pain, assumptions of incompetency, and assumptions of lack of intelligence.
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7. When we have assumptions, What happens?
Assumptions of pain
These assumptions of pain can lead us to believe that all people with physical impairments are in pain because of their impairment. This is not true for all people with physical impairments.
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8. When we have assumptions, What happens?
Assumptions of incompetency
This assumption of incompetency can lead us to believe that all people with physical impairments cannot do many physical tasks because of their impairment. This is not true as people of para-ability can do most if not all tasks.
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9. When we have assumptions, What happens?
Assumptions of lack of intelligence
This assumption that there is a lack of intelligence can lead us to believe that all people with physical impairments are also people with cognitive impairments. This is not true as many people with physical impairments are very intelligent and their impairment does not affect their intelligence.
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10. Perspective taking
Perspective taking is affected by Plato’s cave. Why? If one is in Plato’s cave with all his or her own assumptions one cannot take another person’s perspective as one does not know how to.
Plato’s cave is a burden to appreciate others. One must stop and learn how to perspective take to avoid Plato’s cave.
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11. Inspirational porn- No more
Your task is to watch the video. The speaker of this video is Stella Young, who was a disability advocate and a comedian. hank_you_very_much/discussion Part 1 Watch from- 2:37- 3:09 Part 2 watch from - 8:54-9:00
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12. Give three points as to what you learned or what challenged you?
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13. Assumptions can lead to pity…
Many times people feel pity towards people with physical impairments or they feel as though these people are an inspiration. Stella Young In the video says, “Don’t feel sorry for me”. Stella’s point is that we should not feel sorry for people with physical impairments and we should not think they are only placed on this earth to be our inspiration.
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14. Conclusion
The point of this lesson was to inform you of Plato’s cave and help you understand the assumptions that are placed on people with physical impairments when one is in the cave.
Furthermore, you watched a video from Stella Young who coined inspirational porn and how we should stop viewing people with physical impairments as inspiration.
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15. Questions of Right Choice
3.9 What is the right thing to do? 3.9Think outside the box of Plato’s cave, people with physical impairments are no different than other human beings.
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16. Questions of Right Choice
3.9.1 Why is it the right thing to do? People are people- treat all people with dignity and respect.
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17. Questions of Right Choice
3.9.2What are the social moral perspectives to support the answer? No person is perfect- All people have limitations. Differences are no more than differences.
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18. Final reflection and at least one lesson learned
Please link here to give at least one thing or concept you learned from this particular lesson. If you have any questions please add here as well.
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