Learning Her Place
She hears the same thing all the time. “She needs to learn her place and stay there.” The brown eye girl is sick of hearing it even in whispers from people. Year after year the brown eye girl has to Indore the b.s from people around her.
Do they honestly think she doesn’t understand what they say or what they mean? It’s as if they don’t believe she isn’t smart enough to learn anything simply cause she has a learning disorder. One person went as far as saying as if the brown eye girl acts more like a child then the grown adult she pretends to be. She wasn’t aware she was just playing dress up how come no one told her? Maybe it’s time for some people to see her for who she is and not what they think they see. The brown eye girl sometimes wonder if she didn’t have disabilities would people treat her the same way or differently? Would they treat her with kid gloves still or tell her what they really think? Perhaps it’s about time for people to learn their place and stop telling her; her own limitations of what the brown eye girl can do. It’s time for them to learn to accept her instead of putting the brown eye girl in her place.
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