P.F.O has taught me to treat people with disabilities as individuals. My interactions with the kids have shown me that their disability doesn’t define them; it merely makes up the smallest part of their enormous personalities. I find that in general people are scared of disabilities because they are unsure of how they themselves will respond to people society deems “different.” They think looking will be “staring” and that interaction is impossible. P.F.O challenges us to throw our own inhibitions aside, and to give kids something irreplaceable– acceptance and inclusion. P.F.O encourages me to live outside the restrictions of society’s filter and to “make my own cool.” Perhaps the greatest thing P.F.O has taught me is that no matter what, a loud and cheesy cheer is always appropriate! I gotta hand it to them; they brought out the extrovert in the extrovert!
