Reading Response In the article ‘’On Being A Cripple’’, by Nancy Mair’s is about Nancy who struggles with MS, she implies on how her life changed with her diagnoses, and how she learned to cope with her disease. My response to this article was a interesting. I noticed that she hated living with MS at first, because she wasn’t born with it, then she realized that this who she is, she accepted it. For example my cousin who is 3 months younger than me, has a disability. we don’t know what it is though. Our aunt, and her family wont tell us. To describe his disability, he has the body of a 18, but the mind of a 5 year old. We know for a fact that he was born with this disability. Iam sure
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I choose this word to name me”(page 1). This implicates that only reason why she likes calling herself this, because this word is more proper. See I disagree with that, its not right to call anyone or yourself “cripple”. The way I see it the best word in this situation is “human” or “I have a disability”. Anything else is derogatory. For example there are people in are family who make fun of my cousin,and take advantage of him,just because he has a disability, and he doesn’t know better. They use names like “whats up cripple?”. Im are you all serious right now! that’s why I hate hate that word. In Maris case she use that word to call herself, nobody else.i mean why se a word that puts you down. That’s like me saying “oh I’m a beaner,not hispanic”.well regardless if I call my self “ beaner” its still going to have a negative connotation toward my self ,and people. In relevance I don’t care who you are you should never use the word “cripple” to call yourself or anyone. Its way to offensive in our society. To wrap all this up I have stated the reasons of what Nancy Maris went threw with MS, and how she felt with it,and came to terms with it. I also stated that she uses the word “cripple to call herself this. Ive given perfect examples of my personal life , and my cousin; such as mentioning the disabilities that we have, and the words that are used like bullets to put someone down. I feel that you should treat
I choose this word to name me”(page 1). This implicates that only reason why she likes calling herself this, because this word is more proper. See I disagree with that, its not right to call anyone or yourself “cripple”. The way I see it the best word in this situation is “human” or “I have a disability”. Anything else is derogatory. For example there are people in are family who make fun of my cousin,and take advantage of him,just because he has a disability, and he doesn’t know better. They use names like “whats up cripple?”. Im are you all serious right now! that’s why I hate hate that word. In Maris case she use that word to call herself, nobody else.i mean why se a word that puts you down. That’s like me saying “oh I’m a beaner,not hispanic”.well regardless if I call my self “ beaner” its still going to have a negative connotation toward my self ,and people. In relevance I don’t care who you are you should never use the word “cripple” to call yourself or anyone. Its way to offensive in our society. To wrap all this up I have stated the reasons of what Nancy Maris went threw with MS, and how she felt with it,and came to terms with it. I also stated that she uses the word “cripple to call herself this. Ive given perfect examples of my personal life , and my cousin; such as mentioning the disabilities that we have, and the words that are used like bullets to put someone down. I feel that you should treat