Personal Narrative: My Trip To The Museum Of Disability

On Thursday, February 25th, 2016, I visited the museum of disability history in Main Street, Buffalo, New York. The trip was fun and fabulous for me because it gave me an opportunity to visit a place I have not been before and also provided an opportunity to learn in a completely different and stimulating environment other than the normal classroom environment that I am used to. The museum was full of excitement and rich of history about people with disabilities how they had faced and overcome incredible challenges. It broadens my understanding of the disability history and also heightens my personal interest. During my trip to the museum of disability history, the museum worker, the speaker, was wonderful and a great asset to first- time visitors like me in understanding how the environment operated and how to seek for help when I had difficulties. To me, his speech was the most important information because he introduced a lot of the important information about the pictures on the wall that I was not even noticed it if I explored by myself. Throughout my trip, I observed many interesting pictures and pieces of artifacts. The following are pieces of pictures that are most interested to me and therefore, I chose to discuss.

According to the speaker, Almshouses (poorhouses) were the only aid available to people who were not able to care for themselves such as poor, elderly, and disabled people three hundred years before the passage of the Social Security Act of 1935. Those people were sent to almshouse because they were incapable to get jobs and support themselves. People in the Almshouse were considered idiots, insane and feebleminded. In the Almshouse, people did not always receive the cares that were necessary and they were abused often. The institution was not provided with proper enough of treatments or therapies to