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No, it's a cultural thing. I'll have to explain it to you. That culture and many foreign cultures find it an embarrassment. Like, if they had a blind kid or a disabled kid, they think of them as kind of a wounded cub. So they hide them. They conceal them from public view because they don't want people to view them less. Less. Like lower or less. Like my dad, right? One example of that, like where he doesn't want people to view him less, is he always tells me, don't tell anybody about a mom being gone and about your brother being gone. I don't want people to look at us less. So he constantly wants to conceal those kind of things. Reality. Yeah, so Chinese people and Jamaicans alike, Cubans, they'll pass their disabled relatives off to be looked after. But they won't talk about it. And you're talking about in terms of media. They would be mortified and horrified to show their disabled kids. One of the things, when I used to go out with, like in my teen years, when I still had to kind of hang on to dad going places, he wouldn't let me take my cane because he said everybody's going to know what you are. This way, people kind of know that you're somehow dependent, but it's not as bad as toting the cane. Now he tots a cane. So that's the funny thing about that. So no, they're absolutely, they would be embarrassed. They're thinking about prestige and how other people view them. And so no, they hide their wounded kids. They don't want anyone to know about it. So yeah, I wouldn't whistle for that blind lawyer or that blind politician in those countries. Perhaps that's what they are, but what you would see more is their representative or one of their workers speaking on their behalf. And they always think of them as second-class citizens. For years, that's how I was treated. To where even if I have an opinion, it's not good unless a sighted person backs it. So that's the reality of things. Don't wait for anyone to explain it to you.