It seems to me that as things are at the moment, people only decide to give a damn when something is directly to do with them. I know that this doesn't actually include everyone, but to me, right now, it seems that most of the student population of my school are this way.
I hear totally offensive things said about special needs students so many times a day. Whenever someone does something stupid they get shot back at with the standard "You retard" and tbh I am totally sick of it. People do impressions and take the piss constantly. My new maths room was a room that had previously been used for students like my brother. Certain members of my class wouldn't shut up about the humiliation of having to be taught in the "retard room".
It makes me so angry, because I know that I am in the position to make them shut up, but I don't really want to do it the way I can. Plus sometimes when you do show the fact you're pissed off with it worse stuff gets said. Lol, once when I did tell someone to please shut up I got asked if I had a Retard Brother Or Something. You have no idea how awkward it was when I said yes. Except, of course, I changed the choice of words. It's strange how the second you explain why what they're saying is wrong you suddenly become interesting to them. They become suddenly mature and sympathetic, and start asking (way to interested) questions about your life. And even if I did bother to explain (which I don't) they wouldn't get it anyway because surely, if there was ever any way they would understand they wouldn't have said something that pissed me off enough to share in the first place,
And I don't get the simpathy crap either. My brother is pretty much a happy person. He isn't bitter that he's not the same as all the other boys his age. Looking at them, I don't think he's missing much either. Life is difficult with him sometimes, and I bitch at him too much but like... so what. Really. Whenever I re-design my life I've never created a John without aspergers. Because really... A john without aspergers wouldn't be John would it? He's a total pain in the arse but I do love him.
An insult to some random kid with difficulties that I don't know is still like a direct insult to my brother. I know a lot of people that feel this way. So why, exactly, should some no-nothing, immature twat be able to insult him? Change the very thing that makes him who he is into an insult? Why has this become total common place now? All of the things I'm talking about have been said in the direct hearing of a teacher... And what have they done? Nothing.
So this whole thing is about worth, right?
Who's worth more:
The 20-odd kids ashamed of being in the "retard room"
or
My brother. Who, incidentally, has never actually been mean to anyone apart from me in his life. I don't count obviously, 'cause I'm his sister. If we weren't mean to each other we'd be total freaks.
