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The Problem With Calling Parents of Kids With Disabilities 'Heroes'

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Something has been skittering about my mind since seeing a campaign on Twitter about how people perceive parents of children with disabilities.

One tweet in particular and the feelings it generated have stuck with me. It stated that parents of children with disabilities need to stop calling themselves “heroes.” It went on to say that anything a parent carer does is just “good parenting.” While I have never actually seen a parent of a child with a disability waxing lyrical about how heroic they are, I am presuming that the tweet was generated from an experience like this.

Or was it? In my experience, it is normally those who have no experience of disability that label me as some fictional otherworldly creature.

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