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(M 15.06.2020): New Post

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Just a few snap shots of beautiful moments from this past weekend at Summit Tulum. These guys really out did themselves this year with incredible content , non stop delicious food, fun activities, and well planned logistics, and very kind hospitality all weekend. I’m super grateful to @bleve & the entire @summit team for having me back to play music and create smiles on the dance floor. Cannot wait to see what’s next ?!?! ✨🙏🏽✨☀️✨🏝✨#summit2018 #grandmotherflordemayo #casamalca #betulum #nomadetulum #jasondasilva (at Tulum, Quintana Roo)

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To all of my supporters, I am slowing down on my Facebook posts and not doing the daily posts that I did during the summer. I am changing pace to focus on my film, When We Walk, and will be sending more personal Facebook posts no longer daily, but now they will be more pointed; letting you know my thoughts and sentiments as they arise. Thank you for following along with this change in social media that starts now and will continue on for the coming months. More to come soon. Thank you.

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Hi there everyone. I haven’t written anything in a long time. I have been in a state of shock. Things have gotten tough for me both physically and emotionally.

I miss my boy. I wish he was here. I miss my family. Over a year and a half later, I still can’t get over the fact that they are gone. I cannot stand by the fact Jase will not know who his father is. There is so much I want to share with him. I think that I did a pretty good job of supporting him as he grew up.

He just had his first day of preschool. It was always something I imagined watching; My son’s first day of school.

As my disability progresses, things get worse physically. I must remain steadfast in what I believe. It wouldn’t be fair to him or myself to not stand strong in what I believe in.

My son, I am a disability rights advocate. I believe in the good fight, have a love for humanity, and I want you to know that I love you. I want you to always remember that.

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Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. This is my favorite holiday. It is a day when we’re not looking inside of ourselves, but rather being grateful for the external around us… the people, the resources, things a basic as the food we eat and the air we breathe.

This Thanksgiving, I am thankful that I am alive and in relatively good health, with a mind that works well, and a creative spirit that thrives.

I want to thank all of you for your support over the years and sharing my journey with me.

Happy Thanksgiving.  

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When I look back even only 15 years ago, it feels like everything was racing.  I would go from here to there, bouncing without thinking.  Never did I take a moment to step back and look at myself and who I was and who I am.

In ways I feel like I’m double my age, yet in ways I feel like I’m inexperienced.  These are the things that come with the maturity of age.

When I shut my eyes, I’m driving along a misty highway.  There are memories, there are things never seen, there are words never spoken.  Yet, the drive continues.

Some days are bright, some days are dark.  I am Jason, a 38 year old living his life.  I keep pushing the stick over the stone so as to etch my mark, whatever it may be.

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Me Before You: POO!

“Live boldy.”

I haven’t seen this movie but quite a buzz is going around the disability community and its supporters and in the opinions of anyone with half a brain. At the end of the flick, the main character of this movie, a quadriplegic in a wheelchair, boldy kills himself, making a lie the movie’s taglines of “live boldy”- “live well” - “just live.” How? How do those phrases fit with the apparent theme of suicide? Suicide seen as the generous, noble choice for the disabled? 

I do have frustration with my disability, being a severe quadriplegic myself, but I consider suicide as failure, and something that I would ever do. The idea of it being the best option for a disabled person is a slap in the face for myself- my worth in this world- and a slap in the face for everybody, with or without a disability, who struggles with something that they are trying to overcome. 

Shame on the filmmakers of this movie. I have to wonder how something that takes as much effort and labor as a the making of a movie can have so many people involved and yet not one person who could look at this and say, ‘you know what? maybe not such a good idea.’ The actor who plays the quadriplegic is not even disabled. Of course. 

I can go on and on about this. People with disabilties are constantly portrayed as timid, the villain, and asexuals. These are just three of the tropes that I have seen over and over in cinema. It seems that the only time the disabled are portrayed as anything other than these tropes, it’s using non-disabled actors.

In short, my review of this movie, that I haven’t seen, is two disabled thumbs DOWN. POO!