When Was the Last Time You Saw a Disabled Person on a Major Reality Show?
Cosmopolitan India|November - December 2021
It’s time for TV to start showing our *actual* reality.
When Was the Last Time You Saw a Disabled Person on a Major Reality Show?

''If you are a trash-TV buff, you might be thinking, well, on the last season of The Bachelor. Let me interrupt: the first-ever deaf contestant, Abigail Heringer, was sent packing right before Hometowns, without ever getting a one-on-one date, despite receiving the first rose (which, like, never happens!). It was highly suspicious to me, but not surprising. As a person with multiple sclerosis (MS), I am all too used to disabled people being overlooked.

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