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A. What type of disability does the person have?
Christopher Reeve, an American actor, most famously known as portraying the heroic Superman in four films from the years 1978 to 1987. However, in the year 1955 he acquired his disability, at a horseback riding competition in Virginia. The horse that Reeves was riding threw him forward. Having Reeves land head first. The accident, Reeves had left him with a severe physical disability. Because, his accident shattered Reeve’s two upper vertebrae C-1 and C-2 in his spine that left him paralyzed from the neck down. The accident also left Reeves the inability to breathe on his own, the only way for him to breather is from assistance from a ventilator. Reeves disability is very visible, because his injury left him a quadriplegic. The severity of Reeves disability is the accident left him to have to use a specialized wheelchair, because he has no ability to use his limbs so the only way he controls his wheelchair by having Reeve blowing puffs of air into a straw like control device that gives him the control to move.
B. Disclosure/ Prejudice/Discrimination
Was the person’s experience positive or negative?
When Reeve’s acquired his disability it was both positive and negative. The positive experiences that came out Reeves injury because he did everything he could to see the smallest signs of improvement in his condition. He did countless hours of exercises, to improve himself and get stronger. He also had gotten as far to breathe without the need of his respirator for several hours at a time, even though he will never be completely free from the device. He also made great strives to move his head from side to side, and have the ability to shrug his shoulders. Another positive thing that R...

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...ially people who have suffered from spinal cord injuries just like himself. For this reason he founded with his wife Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation in hopes to one day find a cure for the disability that touches some may people’s lives. The foundation raises money for research to find a cure.

Is the disability part of the person’s current identity
Christopher Reeves coped with the daily life of being a person with quadriplegia. However he didn’t want the label of a person with quadriplegia or a person in a wheelchair to define him. Reeve’s like every other person with a disability want other people to overlook his disability and want to see him instead of his disability. In a sense, Christopher Reeves really became “Superman” for every person with a disability. Because, he wanted to the person that anybody can look up to if they had a disability or not.

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