Social Attitudes Towards People with Disabilities

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Social Attitudes towards People with Disabilities

An individual considered as "a person with different abilities" is anyone who presents a limitation, loss or diminution of their physical, intellectual or sensory faculties temporarily or permanently, which prevents them from fulfilling their normal daily activities. Nowadays it is well known and recognized that people with special abilities suffer from marginalization and discrimination when they are considered as a burden or non-productive people within society as in the family, which affects mainly affecting their self-esteem.

In our society, people with disabilities are almost never included as natural members of the community. People with different abilities live in a constant situation of exclusion and marginalization, with discrimination being mainly denoted in the education sector, having an impact on access to future opportunities in the labor sector. They are considered "special," relating them to specific roles such as eternal children, dependent beings, etc. It draws attention if they are seen in common schools or universities or if they work in competitive functions. In this way, independent life, personal development, and participation in community life are curtailed. The official culture appears to exclude all types of human differentiation. And this is manifested in development policies separately for people with disabilities, unproductive work opportunities, etc.; what they do is ensure segregation. And the worst of the whole issue is that the same victims accept it because they have internalized the cultural patterns.

The cultural and societal underestimation of people with disabilities is not an isolated phenomenon. In our societies, anyone who departs from the predominant pattern is discriminated against. There the distinction between normal/abnormal appears. The first would be those that do not deviate negatively from the expectations that have been formed. The seconds appear as stigmatized, and it is as if they are not considered human. In the case of disability, we believe that they are close to death because of a medical issue, divine punishment or whatever they want to call themselves. We forget that those who reduce the possibilities of life are us by not integrating into a community. Usually, the ideology is used to explain its inferiority or danger. This is how we justify how we treat it.

However, over the years, people with different abilities have shown that they have extraordinary abilities, which have led them to compete internationally and to excel in various aspects. Despite the growing demand for welfare for the handicapped citizen and the implementation of spaces and means within society for their easy integration, they lack the fulfillment of the necessary requirements to facilitate their free and easy access within transports, buildings, schools or within of their own homes, given that the tools can be found but not used, being considered by six out of ten people that at present there are no conditions for the development of the disabled.