A difference in perspective

[sqbr]

Reading this overall pretty cool article: Things We Like:What Happens When Children Build Their Own Three-Story Playgrounds?, I come across the line "A travesty? Wheelchair and crutch bound children everywhere?" and thought "That would be awesome!". And I got a mental image of happy disabled children having somewhere to play.

But of course that's not what I meant, and afaict that playground would be terrible for children with mobility problems.

Which is not to say the playground idea is overall terrible, but still. It's obviously a perspective the writers of the piece didn't think of.

Comments

[nixwilliams]

yeah, i see your point. i was thinking more that if a group started with a mix of accessibility requirements and were told to go for it and make a playground that they could all use. but i can see how the very fact that there are only (perhaps) ablebodied kids in the group is a symptom of structural ableism.

[sqbr]

*nods*