The Voiceless Minority

    Above is an image of a man wearing a lavender shirt standing on stage with a group of people. He is speaking into a microphone.  I have been giving a voice to the “Voiceless Minority” for over 12 years. I have been blessed by both my loyal readers and by my amazing colleagues and friends. I have been able to use this platform not only to document my advocacy journey, but I have also been able to highlight fellow disability champions. Today, I would like to highlight 1 of those fellow champions. Gordon Hartman of Texas is a former home builder in San Antonio, Texas, who has a daughter with multiple disabilities. In 2010, he founded Morgan’s Wonderland, the first fully inclusive amusement park in the United States. I hope to visit the park sometime next year, not just as a journalist, but as a fellow member of the Voiceless Minority. The park is only one part of Morgan Enterprises. Since it opened in 2010, the organization has added a camp and other offerings. You may b...

  Above is an image of a child in handcuffs. You can also see a small portion of a yellow shirt and blue jeans.  Happy Monday, everyone. We hope you enjoyed our post from Friday. Today, we will discuss a rather disturbing trend. Last October, Disability Scoop published an article entitled How School Shooting Fears Led to A 10-Year-old Boy with Autism Being Handcuffed. Due to the publication's limited number of free views per month, I will summarize the article below before I comment on the issues it raises. In 2023, after saying to a teacher that he should bring a gun to school so that kids would listen to him, it would come out later that the student wasn't referring to using a firearm in the typical way. Instead, he wanted to ride it like a horse so that kids could laugh with him. While this does not make sense to most people, we must understand that people with Autism have a different way of thinking about things sometimes, and they may not understand the impact of their wo...