In her Ted Talk, “I’m not your Inspiration” Stella Young emphasizes that historically people with disabilities have been objectified to inspire nondisabled people. To Young (2014), the societal belief that people with disabilities are “exceptional beings” that come to the world to inspire others, must be dispelled. Like Stella, I believe that the only lesson disabled people should have to teach able-bodied people, if any, is that “disability should not be an exception, but a norm.” Certainly, the objectification of disabled people to benefit able-bodied people has negatively impacted disabled people’s ability to accomplish professional and personal goals as society has set low expectations for them.
Furthermore, people with disabilities
Furthermore, people with disabilities