Poor Treatment of People With Disabilities

People With Disabilities

There are many people in our world that have some type of disability. I bet if I asked each and everyone of you, you would say you know at least 2 or 3 people with some kind of disability. However, if you really think about it you probably know a lot more than that. Some people are born with a disability and others get them later in life. I think that disabled people should be treated fairly. They are just trying to live their life. Besides their disabilities, they are just like us and some people don’t realize that. Treating disabled people differently is wrong and we need to come together and put a stop to all of this.

What Are Disabilities?

A disability is a physical, mental, or emotional condition that limits a person. Disabilities can be broken down into 3 catagories: your body structure and functions, your activities, and your participation. Your body structure and function is kind of like your physical ability. If you were in a wheelchair that would be a physical ability or your body structure and function disability. The activities category limits your ability to do certain activities. Being paralyzed limits your activity level. A participation disability is any type of impairment that restricts you from being able to participate in an activity. An example of this would be not being able to participate in cheerleading because you are a Quadriplegic (unable to use your arms and legs). Disabilities can affect you in ways like your movement, your senses, your activities, etc. If you really think about it some people would consider being in a wheelchair the only type of disability. There are far more types of disabilities than that though.

What People Don’t Realize?

With all the conveniences people wi...

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...learn about the individual and their condition before judging them.

We can do our part in coming together and stopping all of this. All we have to do is treat them right. Don’t be like the others, be a leader and treat them how they should be treated. If you see someone being rude to a disabled person, stand up for them. If you do this one little step others will see its possible and might do the right thing too!

I think we should all come together and help put an end to all this non-sense. We should all treat disabled people fairly. What have they ever done to us? We all have our own “disabilities”. There is something out there that we aren’t good at, nobody is perfect. We are far from knowing what people with disabilities have been through and how people have treated them. Having these disabilities makes them try harder to succeed so why get in the way of that.