THE most challenging thing about having an obviously disability is when young children stare at you because you are in a wheelchair and comes up to you and ask you why you are a wheelchair? How do you respond to this especially when it’s a child? They often ask me what happen..Did I break my legs and I respond no I use to say I was born like this, they look at me like born in a wheelchair so now I just don’t answer because it's so unexpected. I want to be thoughtful about so I can respond with an honest educated statement because it does so well to educate children at a young age about people with disabilities.
Advice to parents:
If you make your child aware of people with disabilities
it will an increase amount of awareness.
It will stop the way people pity us.
They will be educated on the language to use towards people with disabilities. Which I believe should start at an young age as well.
Ignorant statements towards people with disabilities will decrease
If you educate others we will feel more accepted as a person. We are human too. It's no need to stare. We may not be able to do things like you but me are most certainly differently-Abled.
Now how do you answer the unexpected question for our children.
Educate them so that their perception will change towards us and our perception will change of how think of a person with disability.What the respond would be towards us?
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