Disability

The clip below shows a physically disabled girl who is in a wheelchair, the girl acting alongside someone else all the time can represent the need for help in society which is counter typed with the girl being so clever and helpful.


In the clip below Jean from Eastenders, a bi-polar sufferer is conforming to the stereotypes of a mental person and she is acting in a peculiar and diverse manner compared to the non disabled person who is looking on in shock not knowing how to react which suggests that there is a need for non-disabled people to act in a different way when around a disabled person almost as if the disabled person is a child. They also tend to change their language and use shorter words as well as speaking slower which is more noticeable in the next clip.




This clip shows the disabled person segregating herself from the rest of the family, The producers may be trying to present her as inferior to the other characters because there is a role reversal of the mother and the daughter as the daughter is acting like the mature older character who is trying to comfort the mother who suffers from a mental disability.