Editors note: From time to time I publish guest articles to the DisabilityNation site. The following was written by Katherine Schneider, Ph.D. Ms. Schneider is a retired clinical psychologist and Senior Psychologist, Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

I can't decide whether or not to picket the movie "Blindness" when it comes to a theater in Eau Claire. It's an allegory, I know, but the images in it of blind people groping and behaving badly will stay in the back of people's minds. I know--I've been blind from birth and have battled those negative images for 59 years.

This week's Pop Culture Thursday(sorry I'm late again) once again centers on the able-bodied actor I'd most like to claim as an honorary crip, Hugh Laurie and his iconic alter ego, Dr. Greg House.It's funny that I found myself awaiting the chance to catch up with Season 4 so eagerly...at the beginning of the series I rolled my eyes at the thought of watching some British actor "gimp it up".(I've been burned a lot...what can I say?) Now, it's totally hard to believe Laurie doesn't walk like that all the time.