What could I know of racism?

Joy Weeber may be a Dutch American that may seem to fit into the Privileged White people
category, but she still experiences the feeling of discrimination because she is disabled. This pain results
from what the society thinks a normal person should or would be. This is also known as a stereotype.
It is also pain that is caused by the assumption that everyone should be capable of total independence.
Ableism is a form of prejudice that marks the disabled as less than those who arent. Ableism causes
pain because it convinces the disabled that there really is something fundamentally wrong with them.
It is also pain to those who are not disabled who are not ready to deal with their vulnerability. Weeber
did not understand how affected she was by all the pain until she was 35. She read an essay by Roberta
Galler who also had the same condition she had. Weeber was able to connect deeply with Gallers essay
and that had opened her up to many realizations about how her life had been lived as an outsider.
Most with disabilities learn to survive on their own without knowing a disability community exists.
Weeber found out that learning to embrace oneself, is not something you can do alone. The support
and guidance from others is needed in order for self-acceptance to be possible. In finally embracing her
disability, Weeber finally uses a scooter as a way to get around. In her scooter, she is viewed as less able
and may be limited to public transportation because of the disability. Even though there are these
disadvantages, she now knows that embracing her disability can bring the disable community together
and appreciate their unique ways of being in the world

Growing up with Two Moms

Megan McGuires parents had divorced when she was very young. Her father had remarried and
her mother dated men, which made McGuire assume her parents were straight as commonly seen on
television. However, when her mother came out to her as gay and was in a relationship with a woman
named Barb, she was ashamed because it wasnt a stereotypical family. McGuire started hiding the fact
that she had gay parents so she could be liked. McGuire and her brother would try anything to hide or
lie about the evidence that was there about their gay parents. It turned out the having gay parents for
her was just like having straight parents. They gained support from both parents and went on trips and
dinners. She slowly started accepting it when her counselor and friend reassured her that it was okay
and grew more comfortable about her gay parents. When she finally spoke out about her parents, she
was relieved because she no longer felt like she needed to hide it anymore. She had lost some friends
and there were insults made but that only made her stronger.