In the transcript of the 2014 TED talk, I’m Not Your Inspiration, Stella Young, asserts that a disability does not make a person aberrant from the rest of society, they use their body to the best of their abilities like everyone else. She first develops her claim by introducing herself and her personal encounter with the over-exaggerated sympathy for disabled people. Young uses pathos to discuss the fact that disabled people are not seen as normal to most people, but they are simply just objects of inspiration. Then, Young suggests that people have been lied to about how disability is a bad thing. She claims that disabilities are not dreadful and they are not something to be impressed by either. Young supports her claim by providing examples
