I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much | Stella Young · TED
Stella Young在演讲中揭露社会对残疾人的刻板印象，指出人们常将残疾人视为励志对象，而非真实个体。适合练习批判性思维与口语表达。
I grew up in a very small country town in Victoria.
我在维多利亚州的一个非常小的乡村小镇长大。
I had a very normal, low-key kind of upbringing.
我的成长过程非常普通、低调。
I went to school, I hung out with my friends, I fought with my younger sisters.
我去上学，和朋友们一起玩，还会和我的妹妹们吵架。
It was all very normal.
一切都非常正常。
And when I was 15, a member of my local community approached my parents and wanted to nominate me for a community achievement award.
我15岁的时候，当地社区的一位成员找到了我的父母，希望推荐我参加一个社区成就奖的评选。
And my parents said, "Hm, that's really nice, but there's kind of one glaring problem with that.
我的父母说：“嗯，这确实很不错，但其中有一个非常明显的问题。
She hasn't actually achieved anything."
她实际上什么成就都没有取得。
And they were right, you know.
你知道，他们是对的。
I went to school, I got good marks, I had a very low-key after school job in my mum's hairdressing salon,
我上了学，取得了不错的成绩；放学后，我在妈妈的理发店做了一份非常轻松的工作。
and I spent a lot of time watching "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Dawson's Creek."
我花了很多时间观看《吸血鬼猎人巴菲》（Buffy the Vampire Slayer）和《道森溪》（Dawson’s Creek）这两部剧。
Yeah, I know.
是的，我知道。
What a contradiction.
这真是自相矛盾啊。
But they were right, you know.
但他们是对的，你知道的。
I wasn't doing anything that was out of the ordinary at all.
我根本没有做任何超出常规的事情。
I wasn't doing anything that could be considered an achievement if you took disability out of the equation.
如果把残疾因素考虑进去的话，我所做的任何事情都算不上真正的“成就”。
Years later, I was on my second
多年后，我第二次来到了那里。
teaching round in a Melbourne high school,
在墨尔本的一所高中里进行循环教学（即教师轮流教授不同课程）。
and I was about 20 minutes into a year 11 legal studies class when this boy put up his hand and said,
我在上十一年级的法律研究课程时，已经听了大约20分钟的内容，这时一个男生举手说道：
"Hey miss, when are you going to start doing your speech?"
嘿，小姐，你什么时候开始发表你的演讲呢？
And I said, "What speech?"
然后我问：“哪篇演讲啊？
You know, I'd been talking them about defamation law for a good 20 minutes.
你知道吗？我已经花了整整20分钟的时间向他们讲解有关诽谤法的内容。
And he said, "You know, like, your motivational speaking.
然后他说：“你知道的，就是你那些励志演讲。
You know, when people in wheelchairs come to school, they usually say, like, inspirational stuff?"
你知道吗？当坐轮椅的人来到学校时，他们通常会说一些鼓舞人心的话。
"It's usually in the big hall."
它通常放在大厅里。
And that's when it dawned on me: This kid had only ever experienced disabled people as objects of inspiration.
就在那时，我突然意识到：这个孩子一直以来都只是将残疾人视为激励自己的对象（即把残疾人当作自己前进的动力来源）。
We are not, to this kid -- and it's not his fault, I mean, that's true for many of us.
对这个孩子来说，我们其实并不是他真正可以依赖的人；这并不是他的错，事实上，对我们很多人来说都是如此。
For lots of us, disabled people are not our teachers or our doctors or our manicurists.
对很多人来说，残疾人士既不是我们的老师，也不是我们的医生，更不是我们的美甲师。
We're not real people.
我们并不是真实存在的人。
We are there to inspire.
我们的存在是为了激发人们的灵感。
And in fact, I am sitting on
事实上，我现在就坐在那里。
this stage looking like I do in this wheelchair, and you are probably kind of expecting me to inspire you.
在这个阶段，我坐在轮椅上，你们或许期待我能给大家带来一些鼓舞或启发。
Right?
对吧？
Yeah.
是的。
Well, ladies and gentlemen, I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you dramatically.
女士们、先生们，恐怕我要让你们大失所望了。
I am not here to inspire you.
我来这里并不是为了激励你们。
I am here to tell you that we have been lied to about disability.
我来这里是为了告诉你们：关于残疾问题，我们一直以来都被欺骗了。
Yeah, we've been sold the lie that disability is a Bad Thing, capital B, capital T.
是的，我们一直被灌输这样一个谎言：残疾是一件非常糟糕的事情（这里的“Bad Thing”是专有名词，大写）。
It's a bad thing, and to live with a disability makes you exceptional.
这是一件不幸的事情，但带着残疾生活却会让你变得与众不同（即更加坚强或具有特殊意义）。
It's not a bad thing, and it doesn't make you exceptional.
这并不是一件坏事，也不会让你变得与众不同（或特别优秀）。
And in the past few years, we've been able to propagate this lie even further via social media.
在过去的几年里，我们通过社交媒体进一步传播了这一谎言。