Why People With Developmental Disabilities Are Cool?

These folks are funny, they have meaningful insight, lovable, and just want to have fun too. It just takes a bit more time and patience to interact with them, and quite frankly, this last phrase is true of most meaningful relationships, if you catch my drift.

I had the pleasure of meeting a man who is blind. He doesn’t actually have a developmental disability because he was burned when he was a young adult and consequently became blind. His face became a bit deformed from the burn and he wears sunglasses to hide the deformity. He had me in stitches because he said that for Halloween he doesn’t need a mask because he scares the trick-r-treaters by just removing his glasses. So after he said that I got the nerve to ask him to remove his glasses, because up to this point I wondered why he wore the glasses. Well, my laughing stopped abruptly because at that moment I fully understood why the kids got scared. I asked him if he knew how he looked and he said “no, am I really that scary?” Talk about how to respond to that question.