"DIY Disaster"

This is my first time watching DIY Disaster. In this episode, Bryan Baeumler (host), interviews Wesley who is disabled and in a wheelchair. It seems that he's an only child in a single-parent family, because his father wasn't mentioned. I'm also an only child raised in a single-parent family, so I can relate. Being the male in the family, you have to "be the man" who has more responsibility to help take care of the family. It's hard for Wesley because he's in wheelchair.

His mom, Donna tried to build a wheelchair-accessible washroom for him, but the bathtub is in one room and he has to go through the living room and kitchen in order to use the sink and the toilet in another. I felt it being difficult to be the single-parent because you have to play the roles of 2 (the mother and/or father). Brian was put into a wheelchair to feel how it's like in Wesley's shoes. Similar to how you think of the situation. For example, saying a joke. If you're the person saying the joke, you have to think of the people listening. Will they be laughing or be offended by it? You have to know the overall outcome. Watching this show, Bryan was in the role of the teacher and Donna was the student. She was learning how to use the tools and to professionally build a bathroom for her son.

This relates to college/university because our professors are teaching us the knowledge we need to gain for the working industry we want to pursue in. My overall outcome about the show wasn't what I expect it to be. I thought they would show people building something completely wrong and see who's the worst. My thought was Canada's Worst Driver. Instead, it shows how Donna have already made a mess in building a bathroom and Bryan is there with a team to show her how to built it correctly so that it is wheelchair accessible. Similar to any other show, the person (in this case Wesley) would love the overall result. You would never see someone at the end of the show saying, "I hate it, rebuild it, I don't like it, looks awful, what is this?" etc...


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