Disability Culture

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The presence of disable individuals has been presented since this nation began. However, the question arises from the perspective of the disability. Like several other communities residing in the United States, what is the disability culture? With several progressive achievements, the United States has taken to ensure that the disability community has the equal representation and voice the question as raises from how these changes impacted the handicap community. Furthermore, what is it meant to be a disable individual on campus and the changes that occurred during the progression of the previous decades that changed the image for handicapped students. As identity plays a large role in creating a bond between all member who see themselves as …show more content…

Many felt that due to their disability that society deemed them a consequence for not eating well, exercising or living right as society has been increasingly “healthist” as they were not well included in the social model in terms of the analysis of disability and disablement. That, because of their disabilities, that society has exemplified their “abnormalities” so in the end they are usually ignored by the mainstream culture only when they are needed like in charity telethons from an individual struck down by a fatal accident. Additionally, it’s the only factor that Though it can be noted that culture can be oppressive or liberating in nature, so with this in mind it has become one of the several issues that the handicapped community has faced. But in this case, the objective is to see culture as a method to contribute to the essential portion in the disability movement in its cause to shape social relationships. “It’s not a culture that is not rooted in a place or certain experience...I think our culture is going to always be much more self-conscious,” as Anne Finger describe the disability …show more content…

This a highly stigmatized portion of the community because since the medical approach usually considers self-identity to happen of physical impairment and find ways to adjust, mourn or coming into terms of loss. Yet, with the disability movement of the 70s and 80s went after the goal of raising a political attention to attack these ideologies for the disability community can develop a positive identity. In other words, rather than going out of their way to attack themselves through denial or failure for not being able to reach society’s standards due to their physical impairments rather, the individual should focus their attention on rejecting the medical model and create a response to exclude the stereotypes that engulf the disability community through manners of removing themselves from their oppressive environments or positive

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