So, A&E’s
reality show Born This Way highlights
the lives of 20-something MR kids navigating live with the help of their folks while
meeting up at Leaps n Boundz to learn
life skills. It’s really an awesome
show, we’d recommend you checking it out.
The 4th season start date has yet to be announced.
Now, I’ve
been around the block a few times, and know “reality” TV really isn’t that
real. As much as we want to believe,
somethings are just too set up, right?
SOMETIMES, I wonder about that with Born
This Way. I hope it’s just my
cynical side just coming out to play, but most of the stuff out there’s so
blatantly obvious. I hope the producers
are just letting the kids…just be. The
family dynamics are absolutely fascinating, and the kids are extremely high-end
while not hiding the kids’ mental cripnesses.
And their strengths, wow, just wow!
Shine on, Kids!
In the last
season, they brought on a new fam with a little boy named Rocco, this perpetually
happy tike that’s graduated from a Head Start for MR kids to start school. It’s heartening to see the older kids’
parental units band behind these newbies giving advice good and bad, in my
opinion. And, again, I hope they aren’t
going for ratings here with some parents showing shades of Housewives of Orange County, which, in my opinion is a waste of
storytelling time unless it has to do with the kids, which most of it does,
but... I say, turn the camera on, and
let the kids go. Use the parents sparingly,
and, of course, Leaps n Boundz will always be the gathering place with
counselors coming in periodically.
| When they just let the kids be, the show excels in tear-inducing inspiration. |
When I
worked the office, I saw both sides: the good, where the caregivers let the
people talk for themselves, but I saw the bad, where caregivers bowled over the
people. For me, as a crip, it was hard
not to break professionalism to tell the caregiver to shut up and let he/she
talk.
Be good to
each other.
-J-
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