Coping With A Disability Research Paper

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Coping with a disability is not an easy task to deal with. When a person has a physical or mental impairment that prohibit them from performing fully is called disabled. It is hard for someone who does not have a disability to understand exactly what a person who is disabling goes through on a daily basis. Even though disable people have many struggles and trials, this does not mean that they are not as important as someone who does not have a disability. Today, there are different types of individuals that have different types of disabilities which they are affected by. However, this makes them unique in their own way. Even though, you have many people with a disability, they learn to cope with their incapacity, while some people may

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