In the essay "Disability," by Nancy Mairs and film "I'm not Your Inspirations," by Stella Young, both topics examine and analyze the positive and negative stereotypes of disabled individuals in mass media. According to Mairs disabled people are portrayed as victims to act weak and helpless in popular television. On the other hand, Young stated, "media has sold the lie that disability is bad and exceptional" because of this people are misled about the diagnose of someone's disability. Rather than being misled by the media or becoming becoming helpless victims, both Mairs and Young presented an argument for the media to represent physically challenged individuals as "normal" in popular
