Question

A)   How have people with disabilities been marginalized from mainstream society during historical and contemporary times?

B)   What feelings do you experience when you see a person with a visible disability (e.g. wheelchair user, person who is blind)? Why do you think we feel this way?

C)   How do you think your reactions to people with disabilities affect people with disabilities?

D)   Is even using the word disability enabling prejudice, why not use differently abled?

E)    What are the individual, cultural, and institutional changes that can create a more inclusive society?

Answer 1

A- Discrimination and social prejudice against disabled is called as ableism. Society have a prejudiced mindset against disabled from ages.And such kind of discrimination is prevalent in modern era in one or other form. People think that disabled people are incompetent to go with the society and these predetermined mindset is main cause for discrimination against disabled.

B- i become very sad seeing someone disabled or someone in wheelchair.i feel like this because eventually I realized that if I was in their position, I most likely wouldn’t want others to feel bad for me, though I would appreciate them feeling for me and my struggle. At one point I even felt guilty about feeling bad for them because, again, I would think most people with disabilities prefer not to be pitied. If I was an individual with a disability, I think I would want more than anything else that people who lack disabilities avoid taking for granted the functionality of their body and/or mind. I would want them to recognize the immense difficulties of having a disability and have some degree of respect or admiration for those who overcome disabilities while being grateful that they do not have to struggle like individuals with disabilities, and I would not want them to feel guilty considering they would have nothing to feel guilty about.

C-yeah, definitely our behavior affects disabled people a lot. If we love them, we respect them, and we care for them.it will give them a reason to be happy , to fight the disability, to smile for a moment but if we will be harsh toward them, they will take there's disability as a curse.

D- yes, we should replace this term "disable" with "differently abled". It always gives a positive impact.it makes "differently abled" people happy by dissociating all the negativepe vibes associated with "disabled". Recently in india , there's prime minister narendra modi have introduced the term "divyang" meaning people with special ability instead of "viklang" meaning disable person.

E- only thing that can bring the change is "acceptance". Anyone's disability is not there's choice.it is imposed on them.so we will have to increase the acceptance.