Just because someone has an accent and drives a cab does not mean he is stupid… more likely than not he is a Doctor and has gone through more education than you ever will.
Homosexual behavior has been observed in close to 1,500 species, and is well documented for 500 of them. So much for the “against nature” argument huh?
The Mayans, which are amongst the oppressed indigenous groups of the world (but really what indigenous group isn’t oppressed beyond belief in our world?), and invented many things, and even had a symbol for zero, while in Europe they didn’t even like to bathe.
Vernon L. Smith, Nobel Laureate in Economics, Satoshi Tajiri, creator of Pokémon, just two of the many talented people with autism. Do I need to mention Helen Keller, couldn’t see, hear or speak yet she became more successful that most of us? Yes, you may be “normal”, but is that necessarily a good thing? Normal never makes history… extraordinary does.
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz… nun, autodadict, poet, feminist, rumoured lesbian, Mexican of the 17th century. “I dressed up as a nun because I couldn’t dress up as a man”. I’ll leave you to think about this one…
Point being, question everything, try to learn from everywhere possible. If you open your mind and let go of your biases you will be thankful. If you decide to hold on to your prejudices you are only cheating yourself. There is so much out there worthy of an ear. If you give yourself a chance you might have your mind blown when you realize how cool some people are, put down the magazine that talks about celebrity divorces, really what is new about that? Give your self some credit; you are smarter than that, fill up your brain with awesomeness!
- Kevin Alcott
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