Lol check the comments on Shane's latest IG post about the international day of people with disabilities. He wrote one of his usual complainy and whiny essays, this time about how he had no positive disabled role models growing up (the irony... as if HE is a good role model for disabled kids) and a woman commented "Stephen Hawking" and all the S&G fans came screaming out of the woodwork. Everyone's attacking that woman for bringing up Stephen Hawking because he wasn't born disabled and therefore cannot be a positive role model for disabled kids (wtf?????) or that nobody knew who he was back then (a lie). Shane then responds with a snarky comment (shocking) saying he didn't fancy becoming an astrophysicist when he was a kid.What's wrong with these people? When someone is famous with a disability it's not good enough for his lordship, he's the only famous disabled person who matters and he's the best role model on earth apparently. Unbelievable
Clown shoes would suit him better considering he's a professional one for a living
Oh he wants authors? I'll give him authors!
I don't have Instagram but someone needs to go and comment Christy Brown (
My Left Foot) , Helen Keller, John Milton ( who was blind long before braille was invented and yet managed to write
Paradise Lost) and Laura Hillenbrand, the bedridden author of
Seabiscuit. Two of the three famed Bronte sisters, Emily and Anne, were dying of tuberculosis as they penned their classic works.
Jean-Domininique Bauby suffered a seizure which left him with Locked In Syndrome. A devastating brain injury which only permitted him to communicate by blinking one eyelid. Everything else in his body was immobilised.
Before his seizure, Bauby had signed a contract to write a book. His speech therapist arranged a
26-letter alphabet according to frequency of use so that he could dictate. Claude Mendibil, a freelance book editor, was sent by his publisher
R to take the dictation using a system called
partner-assisted scanning. She recited the alphabet until Bauby blinked at the correct letter, and recorded the 130-page manuscript letter by letter over the course of two months, working three hours a day, seven days a week.
His masterpiece,
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, was published in 1997.
As for those unacceptable non-authors (Stephen Hawking
was an author btw, you ignorant pipsqueak) Frida Kahlo was crippled by spina bifida, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a polio survivor which left him a paraplegic, Michael J Fox was diagnosed with Parkinsons in 1990 but continued to act for decades - and he also runs a
real NFP. These are just the people I can think of off the bat.
There are so many more inspiring disabled people in this world than you, Shamey. You ill-lettered little upstart.