my 3YO is doing public education in NYC about disabilities after watching the Paralympics.

[syhoekstra@tweesecake.social]

my 3YO is doing public education in NYC about disabilities after watching the Paralympics. We were on the subway with a couple kids from her school who started asking about my white cane, so I explained when you can’t see you use a cane to feel what’s in front of you. Then she jumps in really enthusiastically to say more, and she is at the perfect toddler age where she has absolutely no sense of how loud she is. So she was just screaming to everyone on the train about how if you lose your legs but you want to ice skate you get a sled, and if you don’t have an arm you can get a new one (which she called a glass arm b/c the only prosthesis she knows is my eye). The moms of her two friends were like “Oh… okay we’re just screaming about amputation huh?” It was so funny. #Disability #Blind #Blindness #Parenting