Last night I was at the cinema, to see AVATAR. While waiting for the start of the film, a boy sitting behind I dropped some popcorn on the floor: "But are you really handicapped!" he answered his friend. A phrase so that without thinking. And how many people use terms like "spastic" or "mongoloid" or just "disabled" to insult. A sad reality. You imagine a child who constantly hears these words, in the family. As it grows? Grows with a negative prejudice against people with disabilities. With the belief that they are: stupid, incompetent, useless ... just a pretty picture of what is disability!
Disability is anything, is essentially a bad relationship with the environment, nothing to do with what people believe they know. When you insult a friend even jokingly saying, "But you are really handicapped" by showing that we are practically in our disability is something which has to do with stupidity. We prove to ourselves, but also to those around us. At school, in the backyard, on television ... we use these terms that do not belong entirely to the world of insults!
"you spastic!" Here is another phrase often used among young people. But these young people know what is Spasticity? Or are they only able to be confused with lack of intelligence?
Spasticity is caused by brain damage of varying severity that are often associated with a difficult and ill following childbirth. Fulvio Frisian is a very important Italian physicist, and spasticity. If an individual are made available to the appropriate tools to deal better with the environment decreases disability. So as a Fulvio Frisian can be spastic but have made huge discoveries in science because they were given appropriate tools, such as a helmet that used to operate the computer.
"O but you mongoloid or what?" Here is also here, a similar example. The term Mongoloid is a reminder a characteristic appearance, which is the typical shape of the eyes almond shaped, the original population of Mongolia. The people down, are another matter. And Down syndrome is not a disease but a genetic abnormality. People with Down syndrome, as in the example above are by no means "stupid" or "stupid." But as always, the company has an image of disability that does not correspond to reality. I believe that no matter how one can make, it is important to know how you have always given their full capacity. And people with disabilities do this every day when their little face daily challenges.
Myriam
