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Post by parashoot on Sept 29, 2016 18:44:13 GMT -5
I'm sure this conversation has happened before, but I'm not good enough with the search function to find it.
What movies, shows or books did you like as a kid that had PWD in them? Did you have devvy feels (as in kid-sized crushes ) or was it just an interest in the disability itself?
When I was in probably grade 4 or 5, I got "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor at a Scholastic Book Fair at my school. It's about a kid who is legally blind and plays soccer. I was OBSESSED with it and totally in love with the main character. I have actually reread it several times as an adult and still enjoy the story.
I'm sure this is a common one, but I also read "The Westing Game" in elementary school and was pretty into that. Again, it remains one of my favourite books and I reread it every couple years. I maybe had a slight crush on the character, but more of just an interest in him.
My family randomly ended up with a VHS of "Mac and Me" when I was younger, and me and my 3 siblings watched it on repeat....I'm not sure why they all liked it so much, but the reason I did was obvious to me haha! This was not a devvy one for me, but again, just an interest in seeing a character with a disability.
I'm sure there are more examples, but these are the three that stick out the most in my memory.
(As a Canadian I grew up watching reruns of "Degrassi" in the late 90s....When "The Next Generation" started, I watched it (but not with much enthusiasm)....but I admit, I got interested again when Jimmy was shot...cried my eyes out at that episode and then quickly fell madly in love with the character and the actor not yet known as Drake hahaha! I wasn't a kid when this happened...probably early 20s.)
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Post by malibu on Sept 29, 2016 19:52:23 GMT -5
Nice thread!  Movie I watched in my very early childhood, "David", about a burned boy. This story truly marked me. Another movie, guess I was 10. Simon Birtch, 12 year old boy. I watched it over and over again, though I did not understand he had a disability (dwarwinism) My girl was another movie I kept thinking about, also watched when I was a kid. (The guy had no disability but in my head it's all related somehow) |
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Post by parashoot on Sept 29, 2016 20:13:32 GMT -5
Nice thread! Movie I watched in my very early childhood, "David", about a burned boy. This story truly marked me. Another movie, guess I was 10. Simon Birtch, 12 year old boy. I watched it over and over again, though I did not understand he had a disability (dwarwinism) My girl was another movie I kept thinking about, also watched when I was a kid. (The guy had no disability but in my head it's all related somehow) My Girl: It's because "he can't see without his glasses"!! Haha |
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Post by parashoot on Sept 29, 2016 20:18:53 GMT -5
Did anyone else read Jean Little books? She's blind, and wrote a lot of characters with disabilities...mostly girls as far as I remember, but she was a favourite author of my childhood too. I believe she's from a city pretty close to mine. I'm a teacher-librarian and the schools I've worked in have all still had lots of her books available.
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Post by devogirl on Sept 30, 2016 8:36:22 GMT -5
OMG the Westing Game, yes! I was obsessed with that book. I think that character was copied from Agatha Christie, although now I can't remember which book exactly. He also seems similar to so many "crippled" or invalid children in Victorian literature, like in Heidi. BTW here is a similar thread: paradevo.proboards.com/thread/3126/early-dev-media-experiencesIt's quite old though; nothing wrong with starting a new one. Like I said in that thread, my first dev obsession was with a picture book when I was 4 years old. It's called Howie Helps Himself, about a boy with CP. Jean Little sounds familiar too. Did she write about a blind girl who has to land a plane? But I was always less interested when it was about a girl. I don't think I ever watched Degrassi. But there was some drama about high school kids I remember being mildly obsessed with because of a para boy character. He was a secondary character so he wasn't on much but there was one episode where he has a crush on a girl but doesn't have the courage to ask her out. Instead, because he's a nerd, he messages her on the computer, only she doesn't know it's him. At the end of the episode, the teacher sees them both typing in the school computer room and turns off the power so they are forced to talk to each other. The episode ends with them chatting, with the implication that they start going out. It's definitely not the Drake character in Degrassi, because it had to be from around 1989 or so. I know, it seems too early for email and the internet, but I remember it so clearly. But I can't remember the name of the show. Does anyone else remember this? |
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Post by parashoot on Sept 30, 2016 9:11:30 GMT -5
OMG the Westing Game, yes! I was obsessed with that book. I think that character was copied from Agatha Christie, although now I can't remember which book exactly. He also seems similar to so many "crippled" or invalid children in Victorian literature, like in Heidi. I actually may have just read the Agatha Christie you're talking about! I am an AC addict and and working my way through her books slowly. The last one I read had a man who was crippled by polio and thought that he could solve the murder by observing his family...he ended up murdered himself of course. Sort of similar to Chris (I think that was his name) in the Westing Game and how he a) noticed things other people didn't and b) people told him things they wouldn't have told an AB because they didn't see him as a threat (except he totally WAS!) |
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Post by newjess on Sept 30, 2016 9:26:16 GMT -5
I'm only able to give a quick response now but would love to reply in more depth later! Just had to ask if anyone else was obsessed with books written by Chris Crutcher?
Amazing young adult author who wrote characters with disabilities, race issues, experience with abuse, etc. He also blended sports in and they usually took place in Washington state. I think I read every book he ever wrote when I was about middle school age.
The Crazy Horse Electric Game was the first one I read when I was like 11. Omg... just check out the synopsis lol
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Post by Emma on Sept 30, 2016 14:00:59 GMT -5
I'll have to think a little about this and dredge up some old memories but the one that always first comes to mind is the black knight scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail:
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Post by Julia on Sept 30, 2016 15:56:03 GMT -5
Mac & Me was probably a trigger for me lol.
In 6th grade I read this one odd book where in this dystopian community everyone was blind and the main character regained his sight and realized the corruption.
Things Not Seen was interesting.
I want to say there was more but I can't think of any others. Maybe in a few hours one will pop into my head XD
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Post by parashoot on Sept 30, 2016 21:07:25 GMT -5
I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s. My mother had a children's medical book from probably the early 1960s. I remember pouring over that book for hours at a time, reading about all the different symptoms of each disease and carefully studying the pictures. I was especially interested in pictures of kids in iron lungs, wheelchairs or wearing leg braces. That book and the Jerry Lewis Telethon were probably the two biggest, most consistent influences in my earliest dev years. . This actually just prompted a memory for me...I grew up mostly in the 90s (born in '85). We had an Encarta encyclopedia CD Rom (I think it was encarta '95, so I was 10ish). I would search for different key words that I thought would lead me to articles about disability. I feel like I typed "world's thickest glasses" and other random things that clearly never yielded any results. This was my early version of 'googling' disability related stuff I guess, just like the medical encyclopedia would have been for you. It's so amazing to me how many of us have always had this devvy side to us since we were young. |
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Post by elyse on Oct 1, 2016 9:06:37 GMT -5
My first dev realization crush was Kevin in Joan of Arcadia. I was in my early teens then.
I watched a lot of the Disney channel growing up... I remember really liking Miracle in Lane 2.
I'm sure there was probably other things that I just don't remember!
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Post by friday on Oct 1, 2016 10:45:49 GMT -5
One of my early memories was the Stephen King movie Silver Bullet with a young Corey Haim and he used a wheelchair.
I remember there was a terrible Canadian tv series called Northwood. It was like a Canadian 90210 and one of the characters was a para. He was a cute high school student.
There was also a Quanten Leap Episode where leaped back and was in a chair.
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Post by sara on Oct 1, 2016 12:50:46 GMT -5
There was a book sale in my school when i was thirteen . I bought a book on louis braille and read it again and again . That was my earliest memory of obsessing over a book with disabled character.I didnt see english movies till i was out of college . Indian movies dont portray disabled characters very well( i am indian). So my first devvy movie was the extremely stupid blind dating with chris pine . I have a crush on chris pine ever since |
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Post by blueskye101 on Oct 1, 2016 13:41:16 GMT -5
sara, I watched the Blind Date movie several times. Lol. Wasn't very acurate and kinda silly but love Chris Pine so pretty devy for me. @optomistic! I had forgotten a bunch of those. I watched them all too. Not sure how many times I read Tom Sullivan's story and their was a movie about his life too. Even the female stories were read in much detail. Remember reading Joni Erickson's story and being so fascinated by how she did things.
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Post by Valkyrja on Oct 1, 2016 19:30:03 GMT -5
It's nice how we return to old topics!!....
I named a couple of movies in the old thread. The movie that "marked" me when I was a kid was Leave yesterday behind.
TVshows... Japanese anime... omg, they were great to feed my deveness
And there were always some ep of any of the police tv shows where some character was a para...
A book: Jack and Jill (I cant remember it, I was too Little), Miguel Strogoff (super devvy no matter I am not a blindness dev), and lot of children book that used to be surprisingly devvy when I was a kid.
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