section_path: Disability in society/Societal norms/Tropes/Eternally Innocent
section_name: Eternally Innocent
paragraph_text: Eternally Innocent
  
  Characters with disabilities are frequently portrayed in movies as being angelic or childish. These films include Rain Man (1988), Forrest Gump (1994) and I Am Sam (2001), all of which are excellent examples.
  
  The innocent and endearing person with a disability often points out the inadequacies of their "normal" adult peers, which helps them achieve salvation.
  
  Like all the others, this stereotype perpetuates patronizing perceptions that are simply untrue and are therefore damaging.
  
  While there are many disability tropes, disability aesthetics attempts to dispel them by accurately depicting disabled bodies in art and media.