“We need to facilitate the curiosity within ourselves”.
Activist Sinéad Burke was a guest on Friday night’s episode of The Late Late Show, where she discussed her experience of being bullied for her achondroplasia.
Burke spoke about her own personal experiences, as well as a need for education with regards to bullying, saying that younger people should be encouraged to “facilitate the curiosity within ourselves”.
She said: “An example that I give is that I’m in the aisle in a supermarket and a child will see me and the first thing that they will do is point me out and say ‘look, there’s a little woman’.
“And in that instance the adult will ignore them, dismiss them, distract them, try to remove them from the place in which they are, only because they’re embarrassed.
“They’re embarrassed that this has happened and they feel it’s a negative impact on their parenting and how could it be so, instead of actually realising that’s a child’s natural curiosity and why don’t they say to the child ‘yeah, that is a little woman, say hello’.”
Take a look here:
'We need to facilitate the curiosity within ourselves'….@theSineadBurke has some wise words for bullies #latelate pic.twitter.com/L3jzYLYnUe
— RTÉ One (@RTEOne) November 8, 2019
Burke was a guest on the show days after she appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers, a popular American chat show, where she talked about her new podcast, ‘As Me with Sinéad’.
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