The three pieces are written by authors that society would classify as “different”. Two of the authors are of a mixed cultural background and one has cerebral palsy. Each of the authors discuss what it feels like to be labeled by a society that looks oddly at those that it may decide is not normal or different. They each face difficulties because they come from such different mixed backgrounds that the people they meet in their everyday lives are unable to label them which gives both the authors and labelers a feeling of “uncertainty “, I feel is the best way to put it. I think that the people that are talked about in the readings are so used to being able to categorize people that they are uncertain of how to react when they come into contact with the authors of these pieces. Since we are socialized how we should expect a person from one background to be we are uncertain how to react when we meet someone who is as unique as the authors of these readings, therefore I think these pieces really opened my eyes as to how I may judge someone based only on their appearance like the people were in these articles.
I feel the main hope in these pieces is that they can be just like everyone else. They do not want to change who they are to fit into the constraints of society but they want for society to see who they are and accept them as a person, not to place them into a useless category or the label them as part of a group. I think that it is part of human nature to have a desire to be accepted by others and to be loved for who we are. We should not have to change or hide who or what we are, or from what background we come to accomplish this.
I think the main issue in all of these pieces is the way that each of the people was judged or classified. People can often be very harsh without realizing it and we have to remember that we must be sensitive to others because small things we do or say just like those who gawked in the one story little things can be very hurtful. Also we must try to not stereotype and to see people as individuals and for who they are as a person because that is what actually matters most. I think that the one biggest thing that all of the authors of these pieces want was exactly that to been seen as an individual and not to be placed into a category as we are socialized to do.