I M Not Your Inspiration By Stella Young Essay

Stella Young “I'm Not Your Inspiration, Thank You Very Much” In her narrative “I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much” Stella Young spoke about how the term being disable was used as a form of inspiration instead of a normal everyday person. Stella speaks about her personal experience with the people believe that she is an inspiration when she has not done anything that can be considered an inspiration. She goes to the extent of talking about how the word disability is used. Some people have this belief of the word “disability” as just an inspirational giver, and some say disability is just a diagnose. The Society describes "disabled people" as a form of struggle quite deliberately, Stella Young says, “Which tells us that …show more content…
She describes the feeling that she has when they tell her that she inspiring or the time she was going be award an achievement award but she has not done anything to deserve it, she does everything that any other person does, she says yes it takes more time but she does what everyone does it's not unique. “I was not doing anything that was out of the ordinary at all. I was not doing anything that could be considered an achievement if you took disability out of the equation.” (Stella Young “I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much” 0:48). What I took out of her speech is that just because you have a disability doesn’t make you someone unique yes you have a harder time but it is just an everyday routine that you are doing nothing very honorable. I do agree that people do think very differently about you when they know that you have a disability.
In conclusion, a person with a disability doesn’t have to have an inspirational person because of what they are, they can be just like everyday people doing everyday things. You can just be a normal kid just working at your parents’ hair salon and watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Stella Young “I'm not your inspiration,