Why do we feel the need to put people in "groups". I have been thinking about this a lot this week. Someone who I admire has a Son that is Autistic. He was sharing that he had never felt segeration until last week. They were at the Zoo with his School class. He said that every time they entered a new place people would glance at their group of children in wheel chairs other challenges and quickly glance away. Some even ushering their children away. It stuck with him that feeling... Then he remembered all of times he has made apologies for his sons Autism in Social settings. Realizing now that he was putting his Son down without even meaning too. But putting him in a group. It made me cry... It made me think of Jana getting older and doing or saying things a little different and people without even meaning to putting her in a special group or casting their sight elsewhere. Then it made me think of how people do it every day to each other. Some look away when they see some one that does not have the same skin color as themselves, Others look away from a homeless man when in all reality we are all close to being a couple of pay checks from that . Or the Same Sex couple who are en counted with hate and bullying every day. It needs to stop. We need to stop feeling the need to put people in groups or under "labels". Labels are for cans not people.
I can not change the World but I CAN teach my children not to be so shallow minded to live in a box and feel the need to label every one around them. I CAN teach my children to love every one no matter what they look like. I promised Jana something today. I will never "Label" her. I will never apologize for her special chromosome again. I am her Mother and I am PROUD!
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