“The fact is most of us move in and out of disability in our lifetime, whether we do so through illness, an injury or merely the process of aging,” stated Thomson in the article Becoming Disabled which had its first sentence indicating a crazy fact about how Roughly one in five Americans lives with a disability. Which I thought was insane because a majority of the time when someone thinks of a disability you just think of physical, you don’t necessarily think of someone who is aging. It was cool to realize that the tables turn consistently, so don’t just look at someone with a disability differently, because at one point it might just happen to be you. I just loved how he said, “Becoming disabled demands learning how to live effectively as a person with disabilities, not just living as a disabled person trying to become nondisabled.” So often we look at ourselves and aren’t satisfied which is exactly what we heard in Fixed when Gregor was the only person that wouldn’t change anything about himself, even though he was disabled while everyone else who doesn’t have a disability always wants something different that they think will enhance their body. …show more content…
I was just humiliated by the fact that people are just so ignorant, and the sad thing is that there are so many people like that. Just like when the girl told the story about her mom’s friend and how they said, “if I get a child with a disability I will kill myself.” I would have gotten so offended if she didn’t know my daughter was born with a disability; I would have just kicked her out. Since it just brings us back to Latour’s article about the whole Einstein story, and that you can 't just not take care of your responsibilities. If you get the privilege of meeting someone with down syndrome, you will have a fantastic time with the kindness and innocence, and you will just learn about