I always love it when a critic decides that a show is bigoted because a, it was made half a century ago and b, applies to their disability which for the record wasn't considered one back then. You acknowledge the show was a triumph for racist and social justice but it's still broken because it didn't fit YOUR bigotry.

To be clear I have a disability and there are many things that I would like to make our world a better place. Criticizing forty year old TV shows and movies for their flawed portrayals isn't in the top 100 of my things that I think it's worth pointing out. I have a lot of difficulity when any minority chooses to look at something that was made in an era where only certain actors were allowed certain roles in Hollywood and therefore is proof of their awfulness. I'm honestly kind of amazed you didn't argue that Matlock didn't cast an ACTUAL blind actor in the second exmple listed instead of someone who could see. I'm guessing that's the next article.

And by the way, raising awareness is fine. It doesn't make you special. Everyone who puts up a some kind of version of this claims they are RAISING AWARENESS. i GET that this isn't abstractr to you and I'm sorry for that. There are many things you can do to share your pain. Arguing a forty year old television show was unfair to disabled people REALLY isn't one of them