Between Spectrums

Judge Yourself and Not Others

Have you ever been to the grocery store and one of the customer's was being rude to a young man who is doing the best he can at his job? Well, this shopper can tell you her story.

She went at the store where she usually gets her groceries. When she was done she went to the check out area. The cashier was scanning the items while the bagger, who has downs syndrome, was carefully packing her bags. A woman behind her was becoming annoyed by how slow he was packing. the shopper assured her that she was done paying. Then the woman insulted her by calling her slow like the bagger and said that special people shouldn't interfere with normal people's lives. The bagger jumps to the shopper's defense by point out the college logo on her sweat pants. And sense she has the logo, it means that she goes to college and is very smart. And the shopper tells the woman that the bagger is the best bagger for being careful. 

Once the bagger was done he gives the shopper her groceries, knowing that she walks back to her dorm. But the woman gets even more irritable and demands to see the manager because the bagger doesn't walk with her to put the groceries away. The shopper tells her that she walks and that talking to the manager about it would be pointless. The bagger says "have a nice day" to the shopper and just when you think the woman couldn't get any worse think again. The woman calls him a retard. Now that was the last straw. The cashier calmly turns to the woman, tells her that because of her discrimination towards the bagger and the shopper, The store won't give her any service. He takes her groceries away, and asks her to leave. But the woman starts to cause a disturbance to the point of breaking a shelf, she was then restrained and had to wait till the cops comes. As she was being restrained, the bagger takes the shopper and another customer to safety behind a cigarette counter. the bagger asks the shopper if she still wants to shop here. Her response was yes. Even with all that happen the shopper will continue to shop there and the smile on the bagger's face makes it worth while.  

When I was at high school there was one student that had a mental disability and at first I didn't like seeing him acting like a complete idiot, letting people take advantage of him, and him disturbing class. There was one time when he got mad and was leaving the teacher tells him to come back because he knows the class loves him but I said "I don't" which shocked the teacher and most of that students. But later on I realized that it's his fault. He may have struggles but that doesn't make him an idiot. The real idiot was me for not seeing him as a great person he is. He loves to give his teachers a hug and he can be really friendly to a lot of people. I judged him too harshly when in reality I can only judge myself and nobody else. 

No one can judge people without judging themselves. We all have flaws and weakness that we individually need to focus on more than pointing out another's flaws and weaknesses. Autistic, Down syndrome, whatever the struggle, we need to show them that they are awesome as they are and avoid judging them because we make mistakes a lot more than they do. So I encourage you to avoid judging cause it's not you place to judge and it's not my place to judge.

For the more detailed version on the story go to www.upmoments.com/rude-woman-humiliates-worker-with-downs-syndrome/

Thank you for your time 

Tay Gallagher