Individuals with Disabilities

The society we live in today is filled with so many stereotypes about social groups like Black lives matter, immigrants, and many others. The social group that also have stereotypes is people with disabilities. This group faces many challenges when it comes to what they limited to like autism, learning disabilities, and not having a limb.

What I'll be writing about, is what they go through everyday, the diversity they have with the stereotypes, and how they can all overcome their own disabilities and prove people wrong.

Stephen Hawking

The disability stories shows that the people had hard times when it came to life itself, like how they are rejected by sports teams, or how they have autism and can’t speak correctly and it's hard to make any friends, all because of the stereotype saying how they are limited to what they can do and what can’t they understand. In these stories, disabilities people shown that people define who they are by the way they act or by the way they look. This stereotype has been going on for so long that people have rejected disability people by how they can’t function properly in sports. The article that were provided in the “Windows and Mirrors Resource Document”, shows stories of people that have overcome their disabilities and tell their experience of what it's like to be different from everyone else.

What makes this social group so different then the other social group, is by the disabilities they have like autism, learning disabilities, or not having a limb or two, but they all have something in common, and that is how they can overcome anything.

A very known man named Stephen Hawking proved to people that you can overcome anything and to never lose hope. In 1963 Hawking contracted a disease known as Motor neurone disease, which is a disease that affects the host brain and nerves that causes weakens and gets worse over time in which he had little function towards his muscle. Hawking was only given 2 years to live, but he wasn’t gonna give up on going to Cambridge, and when he left, he became a brilliant researcher and became a professor in Cambridge. He received many honor rewards for his work, and was awarded CBE in 1982. Stephen Hawking manage to do the impossible that no one thought he could do, and also manage to prove to his doctors that they were wrong about his life expectancy and that he had no limits of what he can and can’t do. “However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. Where’s there’s life, there’s hope.”-Stephen Hawking.

He lived up 74 years old, but sadly passed away on March 14, 2018. He will not be forgot to not only for his research, but how proved that no matter what, you can always overcome anything.

What Stephen proved, also proved about the stereotype is wrong, that you can overcome anything in life as long as you set mind to it. He also show us how unique about this social group that how they can have so much potential but can sometimes never find hope or never get a opportunity to prove not only to themselves but to the public that the stereotype about how disability people have limits is just a saying but not a fact. That's the perspective we are missing, these disabilities people can have so much potential, and so much courage if you gave them hope or a opportunity of them doing something beyond themselves.

The challenges this social group is not only to the disabilities they have, but society reminding them what limits they have and they should dream small, not big. Society sometimes don’t understand what they go through everyday, hearing these things about limits, how they can do this or that, it influences them so much that they give in to what people say. Ways you could learn what it feels like to have no limbs or no vision, is by tieing one arm (or leg), behind your back, and try to do your everyday life. Over all, the justice of what this social group crave is not being identified by just a stereotype, but by they way they act, and what they can do. How these stereotypes can have such a impact that it can make a person lose all hope of ever trying by breaking their limits.