I don’t remember much from my early childhood, but one of the things that I do remember quite clearly is this particular moment from kindergarten. A new boy was about to join my kindergarten class, and in the afternoon before his arrival, our teacher gathered all the kids to tell us a bit about him. One of the things that the teacher told us about the new boy was that he was born without one of his arms. At first, I felt quite confused since, at the time, I had never met anyone who didn’t have one of their limbs. But because our teacher seemed super chill about it and calmly answered all of our questions, after a few moments, this whole concept started to look perfectly normal. And after finally meeting the new boy, I thought that his prosthetic arm was pretty cool.

At the time, I didn’t think much of it. Fast forward to now, I can’t help but appreciate the way our kindergarten teacher decided to introduce to us the topic of disability. Because, unfortunately, not all teachers and parents choose to use a similar approach. Instead, they end up tiptoeing around it and treating the topic of disability as some kind of taboo.

Recently, a Twitter user @gendrf*ck posted a thread in which they explained why it’s important for adults to approach the topic of disability in a calm and relaxed manner instead of feeling uncomfortable and treating it as a hush-hush thing.

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In just a few days, Ellis’ Twitter thread received over 788k likes and more than 81k retweets

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At the end of his thread, Ellis shared that due to his illness, he’s not able to work. If you can and would like to donate him some money, you can do it here.

Ellis’ Twitter thread quickly gained a lot of attention, and in just a few days gathered over 788k likes along with more than 81k retweets. Many users were thanking Ellis for publicly sharing his story while others got inspired to write about their own experiences surrounding the topic of disability.

Many found this thread very uplifting and were praising the mother mentioned in the story

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Some folks were even inspired to share their own experiences surrounding the topic

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