There are times in life......where things come full circle.......and it's out of nowhere.........OK, let me explain

Zoom was a show back when I was a 9-10 year old kid that I watched RELIGIOUSLY. I'm serious man, I got home right in time, school let out at 3:35, Zoom at started at 4......so it was always a mad dash to gey home by 4. Anyway, Zoom was a show where 7 kids would do things like play games, do science experiments, do brainteasers, cook r ecipes, put on plays, etc. All the stuff they did was submitted by the viewers (this was when Email was........semi new...ish.....so they really pushed the "new internet world" idea). The show always featured a cast from all different races, ethnicities, cultures, and it did a pretty good job at being diverse..............except no one, in it's 8 year run, was ever in a wheelchair or had an otherwise obvious disability...........(well one girl had a latex allergy but you get the point)

 I started being part of a website that created video game based content out of NYC when I was about 17, and Chad (the site head) and I have become good friends. (They did some stuff with the AVGN and Captain S was on Screwattack) That site eventually went under after a few years, and Chad started doing a podcast with his older brother Eric once the site stopped making content. So after a while I got to know Eric aswell. One ay the guys were doing a podcast and, I dont remember what they were talking about but Eric mentioned that years ago he was the casting director for a kids show called Zoom. WOW!

So I sent Eric an IM andpretty much said "You have no idea how weird this is!" and I got to ask thim that questiion that I had in my head for 10+ years.  Why was there never a kid that looked like me? Why, on this show that's all about diversity, was there never a kid that represented that side of diversity? Eric's response was very interesting, apparently at the casting calls, no one with a disability ever showed up!  

Anyway thats my  story, maybe some things to think about