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Heartbroken to see that @KevinHart4real and @MDAorg are teaming up to traumatize another generation of kids with disabilities, same way Jerry Lewis traumatized us for 45 years. A thread with some of the problems: (#MDAKevinHartTelethon) (1/
...1) It's billed as the "MDA Kevin Hart Kid's Telethon," same way we were branded as "#JerrysKids." The world has been taught that #MuscularDystrophy only affects kids, and that we all die before we're adults. It isn't subtle either. They make a very big deal about (2/
...telling you that we're dying. I knew as a young child that I was dying, because the telethon told me so every year, and it's very confusing to now be 36 and not dead yet. There's no plan for me to be an adult who's still disabled and not dead...(3/
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