During Neuro Aspects today, we watched a Ted Talk about a woman named Aimee speaking on disability. She began the talk by reading off the definition of "disabled" along with the antonyms. After reading a long list of ugly, poorly chosen words, she continued to talk about people with disabilities become what you label them as. When you label a person with a disability as their disability, you limit them to what you think they should be able to accomplish, instead of seeing their potential. Why should a disability mean you can't become successful, be strong, and be happy?
Again with the cheesy romantic movies, but I can't help myself. For my NeuroNote, I decided to do re-watch the Notebook for the 1,000th time. It's funny what you notice in movies when you watch them looking for specific things. This time around I wasn't watching to swoon over the relationship between the two main characters, Allie and Noah, but for the movies portrayal of dementia. The Notebook is arguably one of the most popular romance movies of my time. It centers around the rocky relationship of Noah and Allie. I won't go into too much detail giving a summary, but basically the couple breaks up while they are young and find each other again when they are older. Allie leaves her rich, handsome, smitten fiancé for Noah and they marry and have kids. However, the story of Noah and Allie is actually told by Noah, who is reading it out loud from a book to Allie in an assisted living home. The couple is elderly, and Allie has severe dementia. She has no idea who h...
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