Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Online Disability 101, part 3

cartoon image of South Parkish girl with hair in pigtailsLast fall's New Mobility article on South Park examines why Timmy was voted the greatest disabled TV character over at Ouch!

Why would disabled voters choose an animated, learning-disabled, wheelchair-using fourth grader as "The Greatest Disabled TV Character," a misfit kid whose vocabulary is almost exclusively limited to garbled repetitions of his own name and who scored instant popularity as lead vocalist for a heavy-metal garage band called the Lords of the Underworld?
Read the article. And behold my South Park portrait, using this website. It's fun, but there's no wheelchair option, so I'm animatedly gimpless.

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