Standing Up For People With Disabilities

In today’s society, there are multiple kinds of disabilities in children, teenagers, and adults that can affect the way these people think, act, and socialize. As an outcome to this, people that might be seen as regular, treat people that have disabilities with injustice actions. On a daily basis, disabled people live their lives while getting weird looks, rude comments, and even receiving mean actions from insensitive people. Depending on the person and the type of disability that they may have, this person could be nonverbal, indecisive, easy persuaded, and not have the right mindset to know what is right from wrong. Because of this, people with disabilities may be bullied both physically and mentally. It is up to society to stand up for

After 1877 is when the world started recognizing disabilities in people with the differences and affects they may have. Since blindness was discovered as a disability, many other disabilities such as dyslexia, ADHD, autism, down syndrome, muscular dystrophy, and many others have not only been founded, but recognized. Two of the disabilities that have many physical features and may be easy to recognize in a person are autism and down syndrome. The autism disorder was first recognized in the United States in the 1940s. Since then, about one in every 68 American children have been diagnosed with autism. Down syndrome on the other hand, was discovered in 1959 as a genetic disorder that caused cognitive impairments in a person. There is about 400,000 people in the United States that have been diagnosed with down

People with disabilities however, are an easy target for others to bully them. “Although bullying is a critical concern for all children, students with disabilities are particularly vulnerable.” (Ganley, S.H.). It is easy for others to bully someone with a disability because they are different than others. People with dyslexia have trouble reading, writing, and spelling. This can cause others to make fun of them for being “dumb” or “stupid” because they may not know how to read or spell simple words and sentences. Sadly, the bullying issue goes much deeper than making fun of a person because they are not able to read. Other people with different disabilities can and may physically get bullied because they look different, walk different, and even talk different. Bullying can happen through physical, verbal, and emotional ways. Because those with disabilities do not fully grasp concepts like someone without disabilities do, they may take bullying in more intense ways that could mentally damage them. The disabled are easily bullied because most of the time they are unable to speak up for themselves and the bully can get