Yes I’m different, so what?

In one of the X men movies, I think it was the last one, the good doctors wanted to “cure” all of the X men. That spoke to people with differences and disabilities of every description.

Some in the movie wanted a cure and some rejected it. The “normal” people couldn’t understand why some didn’t want to be “helped”.

Of course I thought about us.

What people do is give those who are different a “disease”. They call it a disease or condition or illness or say you “suffer from” something. It’s their own mental illness and paranoia that makes them uncomfortable with anyone different.

There are pigmentoids out there who think we must want to be like them…poor things that we are. After all, they are sooo perfect we can’t help but envy them. One of my college mates even said that to me thinking I would agree with her. The look I gave her shut her up.

When people ask you wouldn’t you rather be “normal” they are asking if you wouldn’t rather be like them. People have even said the worst thing in the world would be to have a child that doesn’t look like everyone else. They would rather abort a child or put her through painful surgeries that have her be different.

I have read several books on eugenics. That’s the practice of breeding people. You would be surprised how many people believe in it. If you are thinking how evil Hitler was, understand that he got his ideas from America: from famous and beloved people like Darwin and his father and brother who thought the world would be a better place if the not-so-perfect people would just go away.

Well, it’s never going to happen. No person born, who has ever been born or who has yet to be born will have perfect genes. It’s not possible. It’s the way we’re built. It is necessary for evolution and maybe survival. It’s necessary for diversity. Whether you can see it or not, everyone has something different about them. It may be manifest in having a brown eye and a blue eye or being short or being allergic to strawberries or having albinism. Sometimes it has devastating effects, sometimes it’s minor.

So why sweat about it? You are who you are and your kids will be who they will be.