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04 May 2015, 1:58 pm

http://www.disabilityscoop.com/2015/03/24/movie-down-syndrome-release/20156/


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17 May 2015, 9:07 pm

When I clicked the link, I was hoping to find that this person had been casted as a character just living life. Seems like the actor was casted just to play someone with Down Syndrome. It's just another case of the Inspirationally Disadvantaged; by the magic power of disabilities, disabled person somehow helps a washed-up, hopeless loser re-learn to care about life.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/M ... advantaged