On a more serious note...

Hey y'all, so it's Thursday night and I have been going back and forth about writing this post. Clearly I decided to write it but I want to make it clear that I'm not attacking anyone or any group of people, that has never been or ever will be the aim of any blog post I write. I'm merely writing this blog to talk about my life experiences as a little person in an average sized world. That being said, I felt that this post was necessary just to shed a little light on a situation.

There are a lot of groups on Facebook, I'm sure all of you are in more than you realize, I know I am. One group in particular got attention from the little people community and not in a good way. The group was called "I Wish I Could Have A Midget For A Pet". Granted it was an old group that had not been updated in probably 3 years but the page should not have existed in the first place. There was a rallying cry to report the page and to get it off of Facebook as fast as possible and surprisingly we were met with delays. We got a reply saying that it was not going to be removed but our feelings were noted. Needless to say, the little people community was upset but that didn't stop us and as of when I last checked Facebook, the page no longer exists.

To report the page I had to go to the page and I was shocked at some of the things the creator had written. It hurt to know that there are people who feel that way about little people. I completely understand that everyone is entitled to their own opinion and can express that in any way they feel, but when comments were made asking to take it down because it was offensive, the page owner could not understand why people felt that way.

I understand that I was not personally attacked in the Facebook page but I am a little person and to see something like that hurt. If you agree with the person who made the page, you are more than welcome to your opinion, I will not look down on you any less as a person, I just hope that I along with the rest of the little people community can make you see that we are dwarves and we are people just the same.

Before I end the post, I just want to reiterate that it is not my to attack anyone not only in this post but in my blog as a whole. Thank you for reading!

-Jillian Ilana