Melanie Dimmitt on actual inclusion and why we are all ableist

Dirty Mother Pukka with Anna Whitehouse

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Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This is Polly’s moment to open up about a different mothering journey with the author of ‘Special’ Melanie Dimmitt. It’s a beautiful insight into a different parental route that is often misunderstood or misrepresented. In this episode team DMP ask what ableism really is. How it presents. And what you can do as a parent to be more inclusive.

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0:00.0	This is a Global Player Original podcast.
0:14.8	Welcome to this episode of Dirty Motherpucker.
0:18.4	I'm your host Anna Whitehouse, the founder of Motherpaca, and it is my BFF, Polly Hazard
0:24.2	in the House. Oye, aye, Savaloi. So, you know, my mum, she's Dutch, she gets her phrases confused
0:32.6	sometimes. So a couple of years back, a couple of years back, she said, oh, Anna, I was up Shick Creek without a ladder the other day. I was up Shick Creek without a ladder. I was like, Mom, why would you need a ladder, not a paddle? She just boldly declares these things. I was having a conversation with her this morning, and she said, oh, leopards just can't find their spots can they oh it's so cute i was
0:57.3	like mom leopards don't change their spots they don't change their spots they don't change their spots love
1:00.7	she said the grape doesn't fall far from the tree does it i was like they're on vines mom
1:05.4	oh i love your mom she's so cute i once said in a crowd full of people, well, you know,
1:11.8	does the Pope shit in the woods? And I honestly walked away and people are like, no, the Pope
1:18.3	doesn't shit in the woods. Why is the Pope in the woods shitting? No idea. Why the Pope is in the
1:24.6	woods? What were you trying to say about? I don't know. What was the phrase? I know what the phrase meant. I had the best intentions of using the correct word within the phrase. But the Pope was in my head for some reason. But what's the correct word? Bears. So say the full phrase. The bear shit in the woods. Okay. Not the Pope. I know where he came from. But suddenly, he's front and center. Put you on.
1:27.7	Take your dumb. bear shit in the woods. Okay. Not the Pope. I know where he came from. Suddenly, he's front and
1:46.5	centre. Probably having a picnic in the woods, wasn't he? Yeah? Without the bears. How's your week being,
1:52.0	both? Well, you know, um, testing is what I would like to say. Obviously, you know,
1:57.5	still lack of sleep. That's just rolling on as ad infinitum.
2:01.9	But I had a bit of an epic fail this week.
2:05.3	The buggy wheel fell off the buggy.
2:08.9	So it's a three-wheeler now.
2:10.7	Can I have a moment for how many wheels have fallen off your various vehicles?
2:15.5	They've all fallen off at some point or another.
2:18.4	But this buggy's supposed to have four wheels, only has three.
2:22.0	There was a situation where I had to go to the car.
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