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Not only are these two 'disabled' characters great fun, but they also give a very positive look at difference. They bond over their mutual disabilities and Gil inspires Nemo to not give up hope about being rescued by his dad. Gil has scars on his face and a damaged fin from an unsuccessful escape attempt. It's probably not a thing a 25 year old woman should admit to, but I love animated films and think that it's interesting how they often portray disability and difference in a much more positive way than normal movies.Īfter being snatched by a sea-diving Sydney dentist and placed in the tropical fish tank in his consulting room, he makes friends with a fellow captive called Gil.

'Why does he have to go back to being normal? He was cool as a beast! Is being hairy so very, very wrong?!'Įven to this day I still do this. 'Surely he could have stayed a beast?' I thought to myself. As a gawky twelve year old, I found myself feeling much more in common with Beast than with Belle, and thought it was a shame that he had to go back to being a handsome prince. I didn't realise it then, but I had reclaimed him as a disabled role model.īeauty and The Beast was another example. For the first time, I'd found someone I could relate to. But then he discovered that those big funny ears could make him fly (which in my opinion makes this the best disability film ever). His large ears made him clumsy and awkward, and the other elephants considered him a 'freak'. Like me, Dumbo had an extremely enlarged facial feature. The first time I did this was when I was nine years old and saw the classic Disney film Dumbo, about the elephant with big ears who finds he can fly. So I found myself reclaiming cartoon characters as disabled instead.

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Maybe they've let a few out now.īut when you don't know anyone in real life who's like you, and you don't see anyone on TV who's like you, well, it can do strange things to the mind of a child.

But no, they were all in the homes! At least, that was the case when I lived there.

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The town is so full of 'homes' for elderly and disabled people that you'd think it would be swarming with crips. Despite growing up in a seaside town on the South Coast that is so full of elderly people that it is 'fondly' nicknamed El Geriatrica, I rarely saw any disabled people in the streets. Growing up, I never saw anyone else that I recognised as disabled, as different, as being like me - famous or otherwise.

Let's face it, we have no Oprah to call our own. Even Ouch's Great Disabled Britons vote consisted of six dead people. We have a drought of famous disabled people that is so bad that I used to leap off my sofa in excitement whenever I saw that one-armed bloke in the B&Q advert. Firstly, you can hardly blame people for not acknowledging David Blunkett as a disabled person when he doesn't acknowledge this himself! And secondly, surely the reason why the 36 per cent couldn't name a famous disabled person is because there aren't many?

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