10/03/2023
A Message from our Founder:
This. This is what the goal is. Engage, stop viewing us so different from your own humanity.
I’ve intervened countless times with parents when they tell their kids that in my presence. Hearing them shhh kids as they yell MOM LOOK AT HER ARM! WHAT HAPPENED TO HER ARM?! Or Any variation there of.
I approach, engage the child, and also the parents, to encourage them to not instill fear or not to engage by not staring (as a point of politeness), hushing and disregarding their questions. They are curious because they haven’t been exposed to differences. They are seeking understanding. So teach them, and yourselves to widen your understanding of differences and disabilities.
It is my hope with Warriors of Wonder to facilitate educating the general population in hopes that seeing differences regularly will decrease the amount of unfavorable interactions there are for the child and adults with disabilities that may not be comfortable with sharing, being the educator and just wanting to exist peacefully as their peers.
Warriors of Wonder is a (pending) 501c3 Non profit.