Chas Martin
Mr. Lohre
English at 1:30
December 2, 2019
Journal Nine
I
took my research question from Laura Martinez and Andrew Fogaty’s chapter. My
question was why do we believe people with disabilities are limited in today’s
society. Albert Einstein, Vincent van Gogh, F.D.R, Stephen Hawking, and Laura
Martinez, these are all people who have had disabilities. Yet they overcame
them and had unspeakable accomplishments. So why do we still believe that
people with setbacks can’t do the same things as people who don’t have these
disabilities, even I used to think this way.
One day that
changed when I met a person who was paralyzed in his left leg. It was around
the winter of 2014. I couldn’t drive and I was in sophomore year in high
school. I always saw him come outside to his car parked on the street and
shovel snow off of his car while dealing with his cane slipping on the ice. Yet
he overcame this struggle every morning and went off to work to do the same
thing the next day. He always kept a positive attitude and was consistently
nice to me. I would help him shovel the snow off as much as I could before the
bus came but some days I couldn’t help him finish the job. Ever since I met him
my perception has changed about how I look at the physically and mentally
disabled.
We started
changing are attitudes towards people with mental disabilities when Kennedy passed the Mental Retardation Facilities and
Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act of 1963. Longer down the
line in 1990 we passed the American’s with Disabilities act which stated that
all buildings, roads, and other transportation.
But still at the time if you had a mental problem like
depression, anxiety, PTSD, Bipolar problems or other mental emotional problems
you were known as weak or weird. From someone who has had several problems with
depression and anxiety you feel like sometimes you are put aside but luckily
these problems are being treated with much better attention.
Chas, great post and you bring up great questions about modern attitudes to disabilities. So many examples of "compromised" people who rose to the occasion that I think we have to begin to wonder what our different capacities are, even with our limitations. Wish you would have wrote a good caption for the pic and done this on time!
ReplyDeleteI definitely agree with people who have depression, anxiety, PTSD, Bipolar problems or other mental emotional problems were known as weak or weird.
ReplyDeleteits amazing how even though people are disabled, they are determined to get better.
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