Do not make fun of us

I watched Golmaal 2 recently. you might be surprised why I watched this movie now. I had no intention of watching it, but the other day when I switched on the TV, this movie was running and as I had no other work, I watched it.
Agreed that Rohit Shetty knows how to direct movies but this Golmaal series makes fun of people with disabilities which is not agreeable to me. Now you might say that it’s just a movie and just see it and do not take it seriously. But to see blind or mute people made fun of, is not something which I can digest.
It is so very easy to make fun of someone’s disability, when in fact we should salute the guts of such people to take life head on. We cry when we have a simple surgery maybe a cataract removed or a hernia. SO just imagine the strength required for a deaf, a mute or a sightless person to just lead a normal life. Put yourself in their position and then imagine how it would be. Not easy, eh?
I may be reacting too much but then those are my feelings.
I have visual problems. I can see but have field defects. With my right eye I can see through the upper two quadrants and with my left only the upper right quadrant. NOw that might be difficult to understand how much I can actually see. Ok I will illustrate.
Suppose I am taking a walk, If I look straight, I would not be knowing if there si a pit in front of me. And if I look down, I would not be knowing if a vehicle comes in front of me and knocks me down. I think now you msut have understood the level of my sight.
So if I am meeting somebody I just fold my hands and say Namaste but some insisit on shaking hands but I wouldn’t be knowing that the person wants to shake hands. What happens then is that person thinks that I am a snob while the others sneer. I often stumble and the others laugh. I am telling you situations where in people don’t know about my visual defects.
I have stopped telling anyone because even if I do tell, the very first question they will ask is that why I do not wear specs. But what will a person do with specs if her eye nerves itself are damaged? If I explain this then the next reaction will be pity for my husband, which makes him very very angry. Both of us do not understand why we need pity. I am independent , do all my duties, yes I have some visual defects but I can manage.
It’s not just the common person but ophthalmologists too who come in the same bracket. Last year I was having continuous headaches and so went for an eye check up. While checking my eyes he continuously asked me not to accommodate him, poor fellow did not realise that my one good eye is so used to perform all the functions that it accommodates itself. When the check up was done and he had to deliver his ‘verdict’. He just held his head in his hands and sat. I had to console him, saying that i know the condition of my eyes, just tell me whether it has deteriorated further.
I saw a clipping on TV where a group of people with speech and hearing disabilities were communicating in sign language and they were having a lively conversation. For them we are the ‘outsiders’.
Somehow we make fun at the expense of others. We make fun of a Parsee or a ‘MAdrasi’ for their accents, we make fun of an obese person, in short we make fun of people for what we think is their shortcoming but what we forget is that we all are special.