• AggressivelyPassive@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    That’s certainly a part of the problem here, but let’s be honest: how often do tabloids or other low effort media publish such “inspirational” stories that turn out to be absolute bullshit. Like the 10 year old who invented some quantum stuff, but actually his father just let him play around with some tools in the lab.

    This story here unfortunately fits exactly this pattern, but apparently just happens to be true.

    • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net
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      1 year ago

      Even when they’re not factually bullshit, the rhetorical framing is often ick. I’m disabled, and something that I, and a lot of other disabled people hate is “inspiration porn”. It’s patronising as hell, and most frustratingly, if you try to call it out, people get extra offended because they refuse to see how otherising and infantilising people isn’t the same as advocating for them.