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Adam's Perspective
"Get away from me!""That kid is weird!"
"Don't play with him!"
This is what I used to say about the deaf students at my school. I didn't play with them, I didn't become friends with them. It was like they were from some other planet.
Then I saw David. He looked like an ordinary kid to me. I went up to talk to him. He didn't talk back. I suddenly realized that he was deaf. I treated him like all the other deaf kids. I didn't play with him, I didn't become friends with him. But you know what? He's so nice he offered his friendship and included me. From then on I looked at the deaf kids at my school differently. I didn't see how they talked or how they did things differently. I looked at what was inside the person.
This story could have been about how you dress, your religion, or practically anything. The point of the story is, it's not really the outside of a person, it's the inside of the person that counts.