Thank you Ricky Gervais, for improving the lives of disabled people

As a mother of two girls with disabilities I thank Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant for the way they showed the discrimination and ignorance

has been a decade since the Bureau has appeared on our television screens. The story of the daily routine in a paper merchants in Slough was so realistic that when I came across it one night on BBC2 took me a minute to realize it was not a documentary.

The revelation for me is something I'll always remember, because I laughed a lot at a time when the laughter in my life was thin on the ground.

The show has become one of the most successful British comedies of all time, but for me the most notable was the decision of the casting director to hire disabled actor Julio Fernandez.

actors Long before that disability was a campaign issue for me that I found embarrassing play characters with disabilities. Imitating the disabled was quick and pounced on the treaties, when I was growing up. However, in this drama school was accepted. For me, playing with a disability, if not disabled, was as incongruous as applied to black above. I can not imagine that people call a courageous performance in these circumstances, or a movement or innovative, but we do not have disabilities, but also to be told to find the truth in performance.

I hope my daughter, Lizzy an actor with Asperger syndrome, will have the same opportunities as any other artist, but full representation of disabled people is rare in any profession, not to mention the television or broadcasting.

in advertising programs, dramas, comedies, dramas and comedies of the panel, disabled artists are conspicuously absent. There are some people with disabilities, but not all-inclusive routine cast. This is despite the existence of more than 250 disabled members of the Screen Actors Equity, the Guild in the UK.

• There are some who say that things are improving for disabled artists and broadcasters have departments of diversity, but change happens so slowly to be imperceptible to the naked eye. The only place where people with disabilities usually appears on documentaries, but this seems to be an application for a type of poverty heavy representation of disabled people "victims" or "load" guards

Enlarge image representation and there is much less. Why are children in advertisements modeled clothing have Down syndrome, anchors that wheelchair users, and the voices continued to read Braille? This is a question many seem unwilling or unable to react as they continue to throw predominantly white, able-bodied, beautiful people, thin medium. Is not it could be argued that each of us to grow in the shade intolerant marginalized simply draws the light source?

not saying that the actor should be discarded just because he or she is disabled, does not want to be an actor cast in favor of something more than skills. I wonder how many disabled people were invited to casting sessions in the UK over the last seven days.

greater representation in all aspects of life reduces the stigma born of ignorance and take us away from higher levels of abuse experienced by the hatred of people with disabilities as a matter of time.
Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant produce projects that address the culture of discrimination and ignorance about the difference, and should receive more credit for highlighting these problems for them. These projects are imbued with a touch of lightness and a sense of humor that comes from a positive place. His new series, Life is too short, the stars Warwick Davies plays a distorted version of himself. It will change the cringe reflex that affects many people when faced with diversity.

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