I don't understand the point you are making Steve -
In this video an autistic high school basketball manager, who is used to feeling different his whole life, gets his shot in the limelight by coming off the bench for the last 5 minutes of a ballgame.
The events that unfold are nothing short of staggering as he stuns his high school friends by shooting 6 three pointers in the space of 4 minutes. Witness the jubilation of the whole hall as a kid with hardship and learning difficulties throughout his life reaches the top of the world!
Are we really measuring incredible potential on the basis of shooting hoops ? All I can see from this story is a validation of the social theory of disability - the autistic teenager is not disabled by his condition, merely disempowered because the society around him creates tests which are geared to demonstrate the scale of his disablement. And then we are all amazed when his performance does not conform to the expectations of his impairment that have previously been taken as established fact ?
It's the use of the word 'incredible' that sets the tone - the potential of all human beings simply 'is' - in no case is it 'without credibility'.
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