How can we fight against people being ignorant towards people with disabilities?

Answer 1

They should understand they people with disablities are just like you & me. I have a disability. They just treat me like I am one of them. With me I am a slow learner.

Answer 2

Hi Dan. That is a great question. I often think of this too. I have spina bifida and am in a wheelchair.

Definitely, education and knowledge play a huge role in this. A lot of people aren't educated well about folks who have all sorts of disabilities. People who know about these disabilities usually don't get away. They are understanding, caring, and want to know more about the person, whereas people who don't know anything about a disability, or even what it is, just stay back. They won't even care to help!

So, I think what we should do is run a club or something to attract attention. Show them that if they ignore us, we will feel hurt. We should show them that we are just the same as anyone in this world, and we can do the same stuff they can do, whether being in a wheelchair, blind, deaf, having MD, MS...etc. There are ways to live just the same way everyone else does.

One thing is for sure...talent! If we're talented in something, it will attract everyone. Doesn't matter how they look at us. ;-).

Answer 3

I have been in a wheelchair for almost five years. I find many people to be very rude to the point that while I was waiting in line with my grand daughter after a concert for an autograph a woman actually tried to knock me over sideways. Others around me finally surrounded me to protect me from her.

In my small town many of the stores and business are not accessible including the Division of aging and Family Services.

I try to smile at everyone I meet and I never expect to be given the opportunity to go in front of any other person in lines. I do request help taking packages to the car if I need help.

I do not know where the idea has come from; but, many people seem to think that if someone has a disability they are less than human. I am glad that my grown children and my young grandchildren do not see it that way.

There needs to be an effort to teach the children while they are still in elementary school and continue into middle school and high school so that they will understand that there is no need to fear people that are 'different'. This should include racial and religious differences, also.

Answer 4

Starting off by obtaining an education and obtain this education through a respectable university. Graduate with at least honors, join any honors club that this school has available. Keep records of your accomplishments while in school. Earn you college degree and prove to these morons that the disabled CAN actually do more than scrub a sh*tty, nasty *ss toilet for a living.

Yes, I'm disabled. I also graduated from a community college back in the spring with a degree in Computer Engineering with a GPA of 3.82, I joined the Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society for Two Year Schools, and got accepted into the National Dean's List. I'm due to start Va. Tech in August where I'm planning to earn dual degrees in Computer and Electrical Engineering. I might even surprise myself and attend Graduate School where I can earn my Master's Degree in Engineering.

Most important is while doing so, hold yourself to a higher level than the rest. A good reputation is more valuable than all the gold that can be found on the this planet.

Answer 5

By education people and especially school children.

I am doing art illustration in a book that will help young children came aware of disabilities and be a start base to learn more.

Some people will always have a stubborn and have their minds made up. But they will became a minority with school educating children on the achievements of people with disability and with the barriers breaking down.

The Paralympics do a great job now of what life is like with a disability. showing that each person is different. They teach children on Paralympic sports.

Most children with disability are in mainstream school these days which I think is better.

Answer 6

The two most important things are:
1) public education. What most people (who aren't ill-disposed toward people with disabilities) think they know comes from the many misconceptions embedded iin our culture. And also from media misrepresentations--one example being the kind of false "philanthropy" that the Muscular Dystrophy Association" inundates us with every Labor day.

The second--to be blunt--is to not tolerate stereotyping and bigotry. People who ridicule, make fun of, or discriminate against persons with disabilities should be treated just like the bigots they are. Decent people should reject them just as they would a neoNazi spouting anti-Semitism or a racist KKK member. That is not happening in America yet. We are still so far behind that a couple years ago Clind Eastwood--a known anti-disabled bigot--was awardded an Oscar for his derogatory "Million Dollar Baby--" an insult the Motion Picture Academy has not yet seen fit to apologise for. But don't expect treatment of people with disabilities to improve as long as that kind of thing is considered acceptable--and is even rewarded.

Answer 7

Education is the key. The president needs to find funding for this type of education. I feel like movies hurt the disabled and put alot of unrealistic ideas in peoples little heads about disabled persons.Disabled people are not lazy or crazy. We need to get this out in the open to others. Most people have baggage, and that is a disability in my opinion.

Answer 8

I think your doing a good job on your mission. I'ts about time disabled people are welcomed into the real world/share shopping malls ,camping sites, all facilities with those not disabled. For many years people were hid away - Now your out in the world mingling !That' s progress in the makin!!People are getting more exposure-wich in turn makes them less ignorant toward people with handicaps. Just keep being who you are!! You see we"re not perfect either!!

Answer 9

For a little over a year my Mom worked for Goodwill, everyone that works for that company has a disability, she was a heart patient and of tend times she would take me to work with her or a social event. If you ever saw a telephone operator with no arms answering multiple lines you would see sheer determination. People actually answering the phone with their toes and writing with their toes. I was amazed.
Now my Mom is gone and I am disabled, I only wish I could preform the way those people did back then.

Answer 10

I have Asperger Syndrome. I keep wallet-sized Asperger Syndrome cards to hand out to people when I am exhibiting behavior that might be interpreted as "wierd" or "dangerous". This educates the person and assists them on how to interact with me. In my opinion, an ignorant person is someone who is uneducated about something, but has the option to become educated. If they choose not to, then they have a disability, too.

Answer 11

Educate the kids their r only hope! Get out be seen. Older people think that wheelchairs should be heard about not seen. BS get out so the kids growing up see we r part of America too. If u go to a mall u can tell age groups.
50 + don't know Ur there.
30-50 know Ur there but don't think u should be.
20-30 will help if nobodies looking.
0-20 will help & ask what can be done to make it better. Lot to do but it's a start.
It's up to us we got kids that will lessen. We need to give them something to hear. After all they'll be running this country soon.