By today's standards they shouldn't have made Forrest Gump at all but I mean even in 1994 they knew this was a dicey thing to do and they cast Tom Hanks because he was a veteran actor they trusted to make it seem like a sensitive performance
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I mean as someone who works in real life disability support the answer is: probably they don’t and they just made something up
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There’s a lot in the way of arbitrarily establishing narratives about people’s desires and wants and not always a lot in the way of trying to actually discern them
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(The Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi famously once was watching some birds singing in the trees and idly said how fortunate birds are to be so happy all the time One of his students piped up, "Sir, you aren't a bird and you've never been one, how would you know how a bird feels")
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(Zhuangzi paused for a second, then said, "Well, you're not me and you've never been me" "How would you know whether or not I know how a bird feels" As with many of his sayings, it seems obviously wrong and yet is infuriatingly difficult to logically refute)
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Exactly. "like... in her world she's seeing a dance number raining glitter with probably a crane shot"
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