Started Watching Superstore Recently...

 

Kind of love it that the character in a wheelchair on “Supestore” can be a bit of a weasel that doesn’t try very hard.(Well, okay, maybe not at work…he seems like the sort of person that doesn’t bring his passion to the workplace…I’m still catching up with this show, so we’ll see what happens as eps go on.  But every “Attitudes Are The Real Disability” aficionado deserves to meet at least one Garrett.
 It feels bad to say that I’d have liked him to face more barriers(I love the character and he’s black and disabled…anything else, bitch?) but it would be easier to talk about barriers in real disabled life if people didn’t think the answer in fiction isn’t “Poof! There’s a law so everybody made the doorways wide enough.” Because it makes people think everyone’s doorways really are wide enough, and they’re not.  At all. So I kind of need Garrett to get stuck a few times(And really, the law should have worked better, but that’s beyond the scope of this post, for real.)

I also can’t believe that people at the store, just kind of privately wonder about the source of Garrett’s disability, which goes past Doesn’t Match My Experience Avenue and might just go zooming right into the science-fiction section if this freakish luck holds—If I had time to write fanfiction for every sitcom that helps me sleep(Not cause it’s boring, just cause I trust it) I’d set up that Garrett set up some kind of pool or something and circulated some crazy tales, only to divulge that he was in an accident in elementary school. In my experience, people seem to need to know this before they can get to know me; an accident at birth seldom provides a gritty-enough tale for this sort of listener, definitely not one a person can’t live without, but what do I know?