On the other hand, while there are healthy ways to live with disabilities, the “right attitude” alone can’t always overcome ableism. There is power in embracing disability and adapting to it. And some of us also can’t help chuckling a bit in recognition of Bran’s understandable rookie remark, hotly denying his obvious impairment. We know exactly and personally what the prospect of Bran’s adaptive saddle means. And at the same time, Tyrion essentially repeats to Bran his earlier message to Jon - it’s better to embrace your circumstances than try to dodge or downplay them.Īccessibility and adaptation are keys to freedom and success for almost everyone with a disability. Tryrion takes an interest in the newly-disabled Bran, and offers an adaptation that could be truly liberating to the boy, especially in a culture where riding on horseback means both mobility and power. (Season 1, Episode 4: “Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things”). Tyrion Lannister: “Then I’m not a dwarf! My father will rejoice to hear it.” Tyrion Lannister: “With the right horse and saddle, even a cripple can ride.” And in films like “Million Dollar Baby” and “Me Before You,” it’s still a pernicious idea that’s given a shocking amount of credence in popular culture. It’s a belief, almost an ideology, that still affects real-life medical decisions, and drives debates over important policies like assisted suicide. When you’re disabled, the implication –– and occasionally the direct assertion –– that it’s better to be dead than disabled never quite goes away. Young Bran has been pushed out of a tall tower and has just learned that he will never walk again. If anything, it leaves us less prepared and protected. Many disabled people today are coming to realize that encouraging people to use euphemisms like “differently abled,” or refusing to “think of themselves as disabled,” ultimately doesn’t defeat the stigma of disability. Tyrion recommends embracing even the most troubling identities we can never quite erase. But Tyrion astutely points out that both situations involve dealing with stigma imposed from the outside, and with one’s internal sense of identity. Being a “bastard” may seem quite different from having a disability. Tyrion, a noble-born “dwarf,” is talking to Jon Snow, the bastard son of Lord Eddard Stark. George R.R.(Season 1, Episode 1: “Winter Is Coming”).“That’s what I do, I drink and I know things.” In the second episode of Season 2, Tyrion simply drops this truth bomb about himself and it’s incredible: “Monsters are dangerous and, just now, kings are dying like flies.” When Tyrion aptly describes himself Image Credit: HBO And when Joffrey called Tyrion a “little monster” in Season 3, Episode 10, Tyrion had the perfect comeback (as he often does): Tyrion always put King Joffrey in his place. From now on, rulers will not be born, they will be chosen, on this spot, by the lords and ladies of Westeros to serve the realm.” When Tyrion clapped back at Joffrey Image Credit: HBO That is the wheel our queen wanted to break. “Sons of kings can be cruel and stupid as you well know. We know that the Game of Thrones finale wasn’t all it could’ve been but Tyrion still managed to impart wisdom one last time and essentially, ended the titular game of thrones: “I’m not questioning your honour, Lord Janos… I’m denying its existence.” When Tyrion introduced democracy to Westeros Image Credit: HBO Instead, Tyrion comes up with one of the best responses of all time: Lord Janos, in Season 2’s second episode, yells that he will not have his honour questioned by an imp but Tyrion doesn’t let the slur bother him.
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