Post for 11-4

I was reading the play The Boys Next Door today and I found it pretty comical how each of the characters explain everything. If you have ever seen the movie The Ringer with Johnny Knoxville, it reminded me of that. I loved the opening scene where Arnold was at the store and asked the manager how many boxes of wheaties he should buy and the manager replied, "seventeen."  It struck me strange a little later, when it was explained that they were all truly mentally handicapped,  that the manager gave such a sarcastic response if it was sarcasm.  It may have been that the manager was just a plain bad person and was trying to take advantage of Arnold to get his money. And I thought to myself how could a person be so mean to a person with disabilities, when the manager probably knew for a fact that Arnold had disabilities, due to the fact that the store was right down the corner.  But what scares me is this probably isn't an unusual thing. I feel that all too often people with disabilities are over looked and that people see them as an inconvenient. And I feel like a lot of the time people look down on these people not only because they are different but because they are singled out and put in "special" classes and removed from the normal flow of society into a setting that "better fits them" or maybe it should be said a setting that better fits us. I know that these people need special help and attention but as I think about it, it makes me curious is the reason that we separate these people because we want them to get help or because we don't feel like taking the time to help them ourselves. I'm just thinking out loud here so maybe anything I am writing doesn't make any sense to those reading it but in my head I know what I'm thinking.