True story. In the UK, there will be a reality show “Cast Off” parodying the USA show, “Survivor”. According to the article, in this link, the goal is to show how messed up we are just like our able bodied counterparts. Ahh! Isn’t that sweet?

Imagine that, disabled people stuck on an island. I used to think about that all the time when Survivor first aired in America. I had a feeling that I would be booted out simply because I couldn’t do as much of the physical work as the others but I wasn’t about to sell myself short. I knew that if I was placed on a rock near the water, I could sit there all day and catch fish because most people can’t handle sitting down all day long. Sitting was something I did for a living.

I also knew that I could help when it came to the intellectual activities.

I had seen several buff men and women who were dumber than the rocks they had to lug back and forth during competitions. I would be the brains behind it all. But, something more important was stopping me from thinking I could ever be a part of such an experience.

Luxury. Not a spa or computer type of luxury but the luxury to go to the bathroom by myself. I found it impossible to have someone help me dig a hole in the ground, help me to the ground, and then back up to my wheelchair. Nevermind, the fact that it is impossible to move around on sand in a wheelchair and that usually the contestants are thrown off a boat and forced to swim the rest of the way to the island. While I can swim, I don’t think I could swim and haul my wheelchair with me. Perhaps one of the reward competitions would be a new wheelchair for the island?

I wish this show would be broadcasted in the USA but I have a feeling that since we are so politically correct, it wouldn’t make it through the first episode. I’d like to see how much damage or good it would serve the community of physically disabled people.

Who knows? It might one day spur a real reality show with disabled people and not disabled people who happen to be actors portraying real disabled people.