The Roloffs Lose a Dear Friend

This was a title of an episode in "Little People, Big World". This about Mike Detjen, a family friend involved with the Roloff family as he's ever been: building a new trebuchet, coaching the twins' soccer team, and helping to prepare for a large housewarming party. But when a heart condition suddenly takes Mike's life, the family must face coping with the loss of their friend and partner. This episode showed how much they are just like every normal people. They cry, they feel sad and pain just like we do. Detjen was close to the family due to his involvement and his death caused the whole family to feel as though a bond was broken. Sometimes it slips out of our minds to realize that they are people too. We are quick to prejudge them, possibly due to their portrayal in the media. And I think that creating such a reality show where it illustrates the life of people with dwarfism opens up a whole new meaning to their disability. Though they may be portrayed as these comical, funny character in movies such as "Bad Santa", "Austin Powers", or "Little Man" the media is slowly creating a better image of them with the "Little People, Big World" reality show. The media I believe is slowly fixing this problem by showing scenes that incorporates emotion, struggle, power, and many more.