Emmbarrassing bodies program /

[SqueezyLouise]

Is it just me or was anyone else offended by clubfeet and talipies been on there as I don't think people should be. Emmbarrissed by this ????? My little girl as spina bifida and just had clubfeet corrected and she's stunning !! Nobody with a disability should feel emmbarrissed by it everyone of us are different !

I understand what you mean squeezy. Didn't actually see this particular episode but we have watched a couple of episodes of Childen's hospital in the last couple of weeks where v young children have had operations to correct deformities because the parents said "they didn't want their children to be bulied when they went to school". Whilst I take their point - as people can be cruel - my husband and I did have a discussion about how programs like this don't help the cause of people with disability, in that they make us feel that it is wrong to look different in any way.
My DD has severe disabilities and there is no way she could go through surgery to correct her "deformities". It doesn't bother her - cos she doesn't understand she is different - and it certainly doesn't bother me any more - If the general population don't like it then thats their problem! I dress her in loud teenage fashion and she has a brightly coloured wheelchair so she stands out for other reasons - and that always gives people who don't know what to say something to comment about!!!
Sadly I think it will be a very long time before society accepts people who are different as equal.

I no I just don't under stand why disabled people would put them on the program , app clubfoot was done for awareness but I think these other ways of doin that without Putin it on tv for people who are emmbarrised by there conditions ESP not kids , I'm gettin alot of stick for standing up to this but it's all one sided , are kids should be brought up a disability is not somin to be emmbarrised about , infact I don't think children should be worrying about spots on there either , Ashley loves her clothes now aswell she's only 4 but I deffo wouldn't let her go on that program not watch it , glad u replied :0)

i totally agree wholeheartedly with that bigbluebus my DH is in a wheelchair and he seems invisible to most or they are rude and stare , we need from pre-school onwards to teach children to be tollerant of differences we should embrace the differences , variety is the spice of life at school my DS used to say mummy they lie at school then tell us its good to be different and then i get into trouble for being different , how cruel a world sometimes, as the french say vive la difference

Do anyone think that program is a good thing for this

its a double edged sword yes of course on the one hand highlighting disability making people aware ect is a good thing but the insinuation we should all be embarrassed or try and correct any faults is wrong if for health reasons thats different, once again therefore this condition IMHO should be on a different show not put alongside people worried about acne or cracked heals or whatever it needs to be on a programme giving it the coverage it really deserves in depth

hmm, I know it's called embarrassing - but is the premise not that actually, it's not embarrassing, that other people have these conditions too and if go for help instead of being embarrassed they can quite often be helped

at least that's what I understood the programme to be about?

not that one, I didn't see it, but in general I mean

When my partner rang channel 4 up they said the programs for people who are emmbarissed about there condition and won't go to the doctor about it , I still think even if it was to show people there's nothing to be emmbarissed about I don't think that should be for Childen with disablies and with birth defects , because just because a hand full of people are emmbarissed by it I'm hopin people like me can bring are kids up to be better than that , ashleys not old enough to go into alot with her but she's got alot going for her she's smart , stunning , she's brought up not to judge and things and I will tell her there's people who arnt all that ie people who are Nasty or ave no respect for others and just because she uses a wheelchair and catherters makes her no diff , these kids shouldn't ave to go on tv to show people there no diff than others not when either them or there parents I should say may half 2 fingers to stick up lol

im dont think so tabulahrasa i understand what your saying though, but this?!! i cant believe any parents are embarrassed to take their DS or DD or any other disabled child to the doctors and need a condesending programme telling them " dont be embarrassed take them to see someone" if they want to highlight disability of any sort an informed documentary should be made, i guess certain aspects of certain conditions are embarrassing of course, ive been embarassed when my DS says or does inapropriate things bless him , i used to wish he was the same as all the other kids but now ive grown to love his differences and its just him he wouldnt be who he is without it IYSWIM its what makes him all the more special

I no I may go ott with this lol but I really am not happy about puting these sort of things on there , I'm glad Ashley is goin to nursary her friends don't see her no different than anyone one else now I mean they was mad about the wheels first lol but they got bored of that now and when ashley goes 2x to ave the catherter done they simply no ashleys going to the tolite , it's good how all the kids play together and they'll grow up hopfully noin everyones the same And it's not emmbarrissing to ave a disability ,are local council as just been had for discrimanation and people arnt goin to think this program is high lighting good points

They had someone with bunions on there.

Are they embarrassing then? I have them but I'm not embarrassed of them...

Well that's what I mean, it's silly people making excuses to go on there and put there children on , but still spots and things shouldn't be classed as same as disabled people , i don't no maybe I got it wrong I couldn't watch it all anyway I didn't want to watch people pulling there pants down and that lol , and Putin a child with a disability or birth defect on there isn't the same

im not embarrassed by much anymore lol i think once youve had kids wtf can be any more embarrassing than what they put you though with that, i had a lump on my breast before that didnt embarrass me but maybe its just me nothings a surprise anymore only peoples ignorance of disability but that doesnt surprise me just makes me angry , DS is gorgeous and so funny and DH is in a wheelchair,people actually let doors go on him as if they cant see him aggghh and other parents who dont know yr DS tut that really angers me

Well said !! And kids should be brought up to be proud of them selves too .

oh I wasn't defending it as such - I don't like it anyway, lol

but I'd imagine the parents probably thought they were doing some awareness type thing...

its ok tabulahrasa i didnt think you were but anyway everyones entitled to diff opinion hey i dont like it either , i bet the parents are feeling bad whn they watch the programme back though as i think they made a mistake agreeing to it personally