I’m no idealist, but I do like the idea of living in a world where we can tell people the truth and not get criticized for it.  That to me should be a living, breathing reality…which is why I get so bent out of shape when people criticize Obama  for saying things like, “It’s like - it was like Special Olympics or something,” referring to how bad of a bowler he is.

I know that reality isn’t this country’s forte, but one thing should be noted:

People in the Special Olympics do suck at sports and events.  If they didn’t, they could participate in the regular Olympics.

I couldn't find a picture of a retarded kid...so I used a picture of Thom Yorke and his wonky eye instead.

It isn’t rocket science.  That extra chromosome does makes you suck at sports.  Hell, I don’t have Downs Syndrome or anything and my highest score in bowling is an 88.  I’m so bad at bowling that I’ve managed to get a gutter ball with bumpers.  Twice.  I have no problem comparing my bowling skills to a disabled person’s.  I’m probably actually worse than they are.  It’s an honor to be linked in with them sometimes because I know how much I suck at bowling.  So why is it such a big deal to be lumped in with a different group of people? 

I see all of these pro-special education organizations bitching about how wonderful those kids are.  I was watching this one guy saying how “amazing” they all are.  I don’t really understand what makes them more amazing or special than me.  There’s a double standard when it comes to the treatment of people.  On one hand, they should be treated like regular people, and on the other, they get praised when they can draw a circle without 90 degree angles by the same people who bitch about how they aren’t being treated equally.  Pick one and go with it; you can’t have both.

Want to know why I’m really annoyed?  It’s because I SHOULD be considered retarded.  When I was in kindergarten, they wanted to hold me back because I didn’t draw fingers on people, despite the fact that I could read.  Yet if some kid with DS drew the same picture, he’d get free Chicken McNuggets and a really cool crown made out of cardboard.  What the hell?  If you’ve read my sex guide, you’d know I suck at drawing.  But if I did that in school and had some weird disease, I’d be getting cupcakes for it.  Bull.  Shit.  Give ME the cardboard hat.  I can do everything they can do just as well, and sometimes better.

So to all you jerks who are bitching about Obama saying that he bowls as well as the people in the Special Olympics, fuck off.  I bowl way worse than those kids do, and I’m not even considered retarded.  I bowl worse than the kids in the Special Olympics.  Does that make me offensive or a bad person?  No.  It makes me a really shitty bowler and laughably pathetic.

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