Disability: The Struggle For Disabled People

Disability is a struggle in which the beholder of it will only know. It is agonizing and frustrating. The story called ¨my strangled speech¨ gives people like you and I, a broad aspect of what it is like to be disabled. It talks about the struggle of trying to form words, it shows you the resentment people give towards disabled men and women and it gives you a greater understanding and a stronger love towards the disabled. Although it maybe hard to relate to someone that needs extra help it should never give you a different outlook on them. We are all humans no matter how we act or what we look like. What we really need to know is what a disabled person goes through on their day to day lives.
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They are aware of what is not normal and they can not help the fact that they are not like you. Dan Slater always tried to be normal. He would push himself over the edge to form a perfect sentence rather than being himself. He stated that ¨The recognition of one's stutter can be as humiliating as the stutter itself.¨ It was uncomfortable for him to know that people took attention to his disability. He wants people to focus on what he is saying and not how he is saying it. That is one of the biggest hardships that people should be conscience about when being around someone with a disability. It hurts them for you to feel sorry for them because all they are trying to be is normal and they will never feel that way if the peers around them make their handicap known. Dan was told to speak at a court sight and with so many people there he was more worried about people thinking he was handicapped then he was about the court speech itself. He tried to relax but ¨a straitjacket of stress shut me down; the muscles in my throat and chest choked off the air. ¨ Having a disability gives you the most anxiety but yet it opens your eyes to the world around you.
With me not containing a problem with my speech anymore it is hard to grasp the fact of someone going through that for the rest of their lives. Disability can be wide range of things. With whatever handicap you possess you begin to see