A lot of people stigmatize people with disabilities, be it physical, mental or an emotional disability. We tell ourselves that they arent like us and dont see the world the same way we see the world. A lot of the time people with disabilities are often made fun of, ridiculed and judged as being “not normal” and not being able to fulfill everyday task like the rest of us when in all reality they are not that different. “Stigma and Social Identity”shows the world in the perspective of a few people with disabilities in an attempt to show the world that just because physically or emotionally they dont think like us they still share similar thought process which makes them no more disabled than the next person.
One example from the reading is the one legged girl who fell. She had many people come to her aid. though this seems like a regular act of kindness she saw it as people coming to help the “poor girl with one leg” she felt like they completed disregarded the fact that she was knocked down by “a wild bronco” automatically blaming the fact that she only had one leg. In the link above tells of a woman who sets out to change the thought of how people see others with disabilities mainly because her sister has a disability. She says she hopes one day people will be able to see someone with down syndrom bagging groceries at a market for some extra cash like any other person and instead of judging them see them as just a normal person.
