Cheap Special Olympics Medicine

Special Olympics
The Playbook
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1 min readSep 4, 2012

By Tim Shriver

One of the biggest misrepresentations of people with intellectual disabilities is that they aren’t funny. Like any group that includes over 200 million people, no generalizations hold up, especially not the one about being humorless. And if you want an example, check out the recent Facebook post below…

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Here’s hoping that this September, you have many occasions to remember the admonition, “Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.”

-T

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Special Olympics
The Playbook

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