It is easy to recognize people with handicaps as a minority group and acknowledge the ways they are discriminated against. What is not easy to recognize is our part in silently perpetuating their oppression by not recognizing our own privilege, whether it be ableism or healthyism. Disabled people want to be valued for their own individualism and contributions to their family, work places, and communities and not discriminated against because they may not be able to function as an able-bodied person would expect the too. We only have one thing to do in this life and that is to become our best self and everyone should have that freedom. It starts with laws and acts protecting the disabled, physically limited, chronically ill, severely obese,
