This article talks about a 5 year old boy, who was bullied on his
school bus going to and from school, each day by kids older than him. The
bus ride was 40 km from his house to the school, so you could imagine how
miserable this kid’s life was for the whole ride. This kid, Ryan, to
begin with was already part of a group of kids that are statistically rare.
He has a prosthetic leg from a lawn mower accident two years earlier.
Ryan, was being subjected to physical harm, by being punched in the face
by one of the bigger students on the bus, and also emotional harm, because he
has had to live with people always making fun of him for his prosthetic limb,
and then from repeatedly been called names day in and out. Ryan is
“permanently” breaking a social norm, by having a prosthetic limbs even though,
it isn't his intention thus making him deviant and it is the social reaction
which is causing him most harm. Society
mostly reacts hostile towards people who are disabled, in the same way that
African Americans and Jewish people used get picked on by white people.
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Ryan Lowry
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