Reflection On Ableism

To be honest, before writing this essay I was very unaware of what ableism was. So when reading about ableism was interesting to me. I personally do not have a disability, but I do know people that I am close with that do have disabilities. My grandmother and grandfather have physical disabilities. My grandmother physical disability is that she cannot walk she lays in a bed at her home all day. She has a problem with her ankles that when she tries to walk they give out and she falls. My grandfather also has a physical disability; he cannot walk as well. This past year, my uncle was diagnosis with cancer and he was struggling with many challenging that came with his cancer. He had trouble breathing, heart problems, and chemotherapy. It was

I am currently enrolled as an early childhood education major and I am minoring in special education, so I have learned a lot about disabilities and accommodations in my classes. The one class I am currently taking is called assistive technology for children with disabilities. I think I have learned a lot from this class because this class has taught me all the accommodations children with disabilities need in a class in order to feel like a normal student. I have also learned about some disabilities and accommodation through my friends, who have

I had a classmate that had cerebral palsy and was in a wheelchair. I did not feel any way about her because I did not know that she had cerebral palsy until she told me. I treated her like she was a normal person, but other people in my class feelings towards her were not so nice. She was would always ask questions in the class because she had struggles and people in the classroom would yell at her. They say come on you ask so many questions, but she never bothered me. The feelings that come up when I am around people who are disabilities like blind, deaf, cerebral palsy, are obese, and etc. is I do not feel any different when I am around someone who does not have a disability. I think that people with disabilities are normal. People who disabilities should feel like they are not different from me or another person in this world. They might have severe struggles; we should not judge someone on the struggles they have. People who disabilities describe themselves as “invisible” because people just pretend that they are not there. People tend to ignore them when they see people disabilities in public with disabilities. The words my family and community use to refer to the above groups of people is disabled because we had a family friend who was disabled. My parents hated when we or people we knew used the word “mental retardation” or just