Woman With Down Syndrome Ordering a Margarita viral video and meme.

Woman With Down Syndrome Ordering a Margarita

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Updated Mar 18, 2024 at 01:57PM EDT by Zach.

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Woman With Down Syndrome Ordering a Margarita refers to a reaction image from a campaign for World Down Syndrome Day in 2024, showing a woman wearing two high ponytails smiling as she orders a margarita. The image stems from a disability awareness campaign called "Assume That I Can," which promotes more freedoms and positive associations for people with Down syndrome. In February 2024, one X / Twitter user's decision to use the image as a reaction meme with the caption, "Just ordered a margarita," led to discussions and debates about whether using the image is ableist, with one camp seeing such memes and reactions images as patronizing or disrespectful and the other seeing such opinions as indicative of the kind of ideas the "Assume That I Can" campaign is trying to dispel.

Origin

On March 15th, 2024, the TikTok[1] page for the National Down Syndrome Society (@ndssorg) posted a video commemorating World Down Syndrome Day. The video depicted actor Madison Tevlin being denied an alcoholic drink, being coddled by her parents and being underestimated physically and mentally by her coach and teachers. She then launches into a campaign encouraging people to, "Assume that I can, so maybe I will," saying that people with Down syndrome should be given more freedoms and opportunities.

The video gathered over 28 million views and 6 million likes in three days (seen below).

@ndssorg Our negative assumptions about people with Down syndrome can lead us to treat them in such a way that these assumptions becomes reality. In sociology, this is called ‘self-fulfilling prophecy’. 👎 Let’s try to reverse the perspective. By having positive assumptions about people with Down syndrome, we can give them more opportunities at school, in the workplace, in sports and in social life. And maybe these assumptions will eventually become a fulfilling reality. 🙌 #AssumeThatICan Join us this #WorldDownSyndromeDay in our efforts to #EndTheStereotypes by sharing this video! Head to the link in our bio for other ways that you can get involved in #WDSD24 ♬ original sound – National Down Syndrome Society

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On March 15th, 2024, X[2] user @zaccccchg posted a screengrab of Madison Tevlin trying to order a margarita from the aforementioned video, writing, "Just ordered a margarita." The post gathered over 100,000 likes in a day (seen below, left).

The post gathered some backlash from other X[3] users, as seen in a post by @ScaredBisexual who wrote, "My take on this being a meme is ppl clearly aren’t doing it to treat her as an adult and stop infantilization. It’s clearly making fun of her disability and you have to jump through hoops to argue otherwise" (seen below, right).


Zach @zaccccchg Just ordered a margarita 6:49 PM · Mar 15, 2024 5.5M Views Follow 4,096 Reposts 473 Quotes 71.4K Likes Sarah Follow @ScaredBisexual My take on this being a meme is ppl clearly aren't doing it to treat her as an adult and stop infantilization. It's clearly making fun of her disability and you have to jump through hoops to argue otherwise x.com/zaccccchg/ stat... You're unable to view this Post because this account owner limits who can view their Posts. Learn more 6:35 AM · Mar 17, 2024 70.9K Views

This critical take on using the image of Madison Tevlin as a meme became the subject of debate, as seen in a March 16th, 2024, post by X user @Komaniecki_R,[4] which gathered over 120,000 likes in two days (seen below, left). On March 17th, X[5] user @computer_gay shared another post criticizing the use of the image as a reaction meme, writing, "people uncharitably interpreting every reaction image as an inherent mockery of the subject is so limiting and joyless," gathering over 6,000 likes in a day (seen below, right).


Robert Komaniecki @Komaniecki_R Follow This woman could not have been more clear about not wanting to be infantilized, and yet Taylor Ford @blowupyourlips Follow @barkbox is this YOUR Art Director using a Down syndrome girl's image on his very public Twitter page for “fun?” YIKES! Zach @zaccccchg. 15h Just ordered a margarita 10:58 AM · Mar 16, 2024 4.5M Views matt Follow @computer_gay people uncharitably interpreting every reaction image as an inherent mockery of the subject is so limiting and joyless white gay men thinking they're the center of humor when really they're just mean-spirited in an effort to make up for their lack of an actual personality Zach @zaccccchg-1d Just ordered a margarita 2:29 PM Mar 17, 2024 156.6K Views •

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External References

[1] TikTok – ndssorg

[2] Internet Archive – X

[3] X – ScaredBisexual

[4]  X – Komaniecki_R

[5] X – computer_gay

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