I was searching on-line for stories about people with intellectual disability and I found very few books written after 2000. By contrast there are many about people with autism.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics reports that in 2012 people with intellectual disability were 2.9% of the population. People with Autism were 0.7%. Autism is less prevalent but seems more interesting to people than intellectual disability.
I found an interesting article about Emma, a woman with a learning disability who wanted her real name to be used by the person who wrote her story. She said she wanted people to know that "she didn’t ask to have learning difficulties, she was angry about it and that it was ‘awful’ (her word). She said " If I didn’t have a learning disability I would have my own life and it would be easy to do normal things. ..."‘I am not a fast learner and people called me lazy and it is not laziness and it is called learning difficulties and I am angry and learning difficulties is not nice and it is not fair."
I feel sad for people with intellectual disability, or learning disability, because they seem to be overlooked.
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