Down's syndrome

I just listened to a young lady on Radio Eireann.

She said that when she was in company with her parents strangers would look at her parents, and talk to them, but they would not talk to her, nor look at her.

What right do we have to decide whom we will look at, or speak to? How can we be so arrogant that we decide others are not worth while addressing? Do we ever speculate, from within our own personally created ivory towers, how others see us?

She concluded. Speak to me, look me in the eye. I am just as much a human being as are you. I don't have your advantages, but that is not my fault.