I find quite some irony in this video of a school play. Dickens’ original story was not particularly good on cripple rights – I must admit to wanting to throttle tiny tim. The thought of any disabled person asking to be paraded so that people could be reminded ‘who made cripples walk and blind men see’ quite disgusts me. Indeed, we have come a long way from being spectacles of pity. Sure, I can make a spectacle of myself if I want, but I never want people to pity me. It’s quite amazing to see how far we’ve come since dickens’ time, but I fear we have even further yet to go.