Not Helping

When you turn on the television, you see many things: blonde models, asian people, hispanic people, and above all, able bodied people. One of the things you don't see, however, is disabled people. I think the reason for this is many television writers don't know how to deal with creating a high-functioning disabled character. But, honestly, if I had seen more disabled television characters when I was younger, I wouldn't have felt so isolated. Usually, when you see disabled people on television, there usually is a character the other characters "have to" look after. There was one show, however, that I understood and could identify with. This show was called Pelswick.