I often hear parents of children with disabilities voice concern over people staring at their kids… but is the alternative better?
Louis Lim’s powerful observation makes me absolutely sure I will continue to embrace any prolonged gazes cast towards Mac. I don’t ever want him to be invisible to his community, invisible to our society or to be “eliminated from our consciousness”.
So I guess I offer a word of caution to those who have difficulty accepting the ‘stare’. “Be careful what you wish for”, there might just be way more at stake if a stare, a sidewards glance, a gawk or an outright ‘gape’ is eliminated – invisibility is a poor alternative.
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Inky Ed 
Good point Gina. I remember a day when Angela and I were at Singapore zoo with both our disabled kids and we were attracting a lot of stares – Angela suggested that we should put out a donation tin like the zoo keepers were doing at the elephant, monkey and bird enclosures – maybe we could earn a few $ and put on a bit of a show – LOL ! Always best to have a sense of humour in these situations.
You can answer a stare with an information card. We have them made up at Staples, or a lot of organizations/non profits, etc, make them for different disabilities. We use a small picture, a few lines about my girl, a short description of the disability, and websites where there is more information. Just on a business card.
Donna great idea. We were just talking about that concept last night so it is great to hear someone using that option and that it is a positive. Cheers
it rude to stare period weather you have a disability or not i bet the person that made this saying dosnt have one .i have autism but i no my friends with phycal disabily do not like being stare at nor do litte people .if someone is curious an want to ask a qustion that one thing but when someone is looking at you like u have 16 heads or something witch i have had eathir when alone or with a froiend who is deaf it really make me mad .i rather be ingore or ask a qustion then stared at
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