Look at me for who I am. Not what I look like.

Over the summer, I was planning on reading a lot of books. Starting off with summer reading. I wanted to get that done first so I could relax and enjoy the summer with less-brain-occupational books, if you will. But that didn't happen. Summer took it's course and I got busy with all the fun things summer throws at you. However at the end of summer, I didn't have some time to start reading Look Me in the Eyes by John Elder Robinson. Robinson as a young boy was ostracized. He didn't understand why until a few years ago. Robinson has Aspergers-an Autism like disease that makes socializing difficult. Robinson knew he was different because his classmates would talk with him and he wouldn't say that they wanted him to say. He didnt understand that they liked small talk. He was talking like an adult and thinking like one before they were. Ok something just hit me like a wall of bricks. Creature from Frankenstein is like Robinson! Both outliers and both rejected. For different reasons, yes but same idea. Robinson was rejected because he acts different from so called "normal" people and creature just looks different. Funny now society works isn't it. Do one thing the wrong way and you might as well move to East Africa or a secluded ice cave. I well see that society hasn't changed one bit. Differences are looked down upon. This is the subject that boils my blood. I mean boils my blood. Can everyone stop focusing on themselves and how others are different and stocks on how others a different in their own way? Apparently it's hard to do because we can't seem to get over the fact that people are different. Poor creature started off will a good heart and a bad appearance. He was rejected immediately by his creator and everyone he encountered. Robinson, on the other hand, is the opposite. He looks "normal" but the way he acts is different than what society expects. While at a party, Robinson asked something along the lines of "What's easier to put in a garbage truck,  bowling balls or babies?" First I thought about how weird of a question that was. Second I hoped I had the right answer. Robinson said, "Babies. Because you can use a pitch fork." Who says that. Who thinks like that. That is what I first thought. Society has trained me to noticed the weird and either stay away or gossip about. Am I proud of that? No. Do I want to change it? Yes. It's a lot harder than I thought. In the past couple of weeks I have been trying to be more open minded and give more people the benefit of the doubt. While doing so I've noticed how harsh people are. Including my own family. It's easier to judge those who you do not know, harder to judge the people you do. Maybe that's because we judged them at first and thought "oh, I can see myself being friends with her." There's never a moment where we aren't thinking not to do or to do something. Our brains are always churning about who slept with who, who got a new haircut, or how ugly her labradoodle mix is. So this week, think about creature and Robinson. Think about how you would feel if what you think is normal is different to society. What would you do?