Pros And Cons Of Disabilities

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Disability: Any disease or problem that goes uneducated by people all over the world, especially in the United States. A disability is something that almost everyone has heard of but doesn’t know about in depth. “More than 600 million persons, 10 per cent of the world’s population, have a disability” (Pineda). You will see and hear of people that have a disability and use words that shouldn’t be used. A common connotation when you hear about people with a disability, is that those human beings are “mentally retarded”, “retarded”, or “special ed” but they are completely the opposite. People with a disorder don’t have a choice whether they are like that or not and putting them in that situation doesn’t help their self esteem any. “When you focus on someone 's disability, you 'll overlook their abilities, beauty and uniqueness. Once you learn to accept and love them for who they are, you subconsciously learn to love yourself unconditionally”, said Yvonne Pierre from The Day My Soul Cried: A Memoir. Being a normal person, you shouldn’t have any right in judging and making fun of disabilities people when you could be just in the wrong. Many people don’t know the extent of their words and how they insult people without knowing. Humans all over the world should …show more content…

With the acceptance of disabled people being more common you would think that you wouldn’t see any discrimination against them, but in today’s age, you still see them getting left out. It doesn’t only benefit them as people to include them in the things that normal people get involved in but it benefits you as a person as well. We, as a society, should start including them into the things that they usually don’t get involved in. Who knows, it might change your life. We should all learn about how we can affect the community of inclusion of people with disabilities and be more accepting of the

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