Personal Perception on Disability

In the contemporary world, it is factual that the number of disable people leaving independently has increased significantly in the millennial era. This can be based on the increasing awareness that disabled people ought to live a normal life as other people do. Therefore, disabled people have withheld the perception of potential of full control over their life. Additionally, disabled people work towards eliminating the modern attitude that a disabled person is obviously dependent on others for help on nearly everything. This can be regarded as the starting point of negative stereotyping on people with disabilities. However, personally, I believe that it not about stereotyping; it is more of sympathy and consideration about the ability and effect of certain factors on the health of the disabled people.  Conversely, it is factual that every type of disability endures a certain level of segregation from the normal progress of the activities in the current society. Thus, in this case I will pay much attention on intellectual disability which might result from disorders such as Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) or even Tourette syndrome (TS). Citing from the healthcare perspective, I contend that one of the reasons why the modern society has failed in offering full attention to people with disabilities is because it does engage disabled people in debates regarding strategies to adopt to help the disabled. As a result, I will focus on the segregation of people with learning disabilities during debates on the help to people with intellectual disabilities.

To start with, I believe that people with intellectual disabilities has a right to partake in developing ideas on the help that people living with similar disabilities should get. It is no wonder to find that modern conferences discussing the issue of people with learning disabilities host professional, doctors, surgeons and therapist but fail to engage disabled people. With this regard, my worries are based on the fact that if the society continues to withhold this culture, other organizations and sectors might find themselves excluding people with learning disabilities from their decision making processes. This might promote the fading away of the spirit of disabled people’s rights in the future. For instance, in most of the studies conducted on the development of disorders that affect learning ability of an individual, people with similar disabilities are always left out. The researchers end up using their own perceptions on the study instead of engaging people with the same disorder they are studying in order to capture their ideas. Referencing this case, it is perceptible that the research sector has no apparent good reason for leaving out the disabled people in their studies regardless of the correlation with the disorder being investigated. This is evidence that different departments will adopt the trend of leaving out disabled people in ideas generation and decision making. According to me, researchers and medical intellections make a serious mistake by overlooking the importance of disabled people in their research. For instance, it is true that involving a person suffering from the same disorder being studied can help significantly in speeding up the results of the study. This is argued on the fact that the disabled person engaged in the study will act as a reference or even source of ideas on the information regarding the disorder.

On the other hand, the act of leaving out the disabled people in a research or debate on the disorders might be of good will to those involved in the research and study. However, it is recommendable to ask yourself about what effect might that have on the esteem of the disabled person especially who is suffering from the disorder in question. This means that researchers should be both optimistic and pessimistic on the issue. For example, similarly to gender representation, engaging a disabled person in a research or debate acts as representation of disabled people which will help significantly in raising the self-esteem of disabled people in the society. The other example is based on Down’s syndrome where the researchers might be looking for the answer on whether to prevent fetus with this disorder to be born or to let nature take its course. Thus, in such a discussion, involving a person with that syndrome will help the participants understand what it is about to be born with the disorder according to the ideas raised by the person from his or her experience. The disabled person might prove that it is possible for the child born with the syndrome to lead a happy and comfortable life. This will change the perception of the researchers and speed up the results and conclusions of their study. Additionally, the disabled person will feel revered which will help him or her see the value of living in this society. I believe that one of the reasons that make people with disabilities lead an unhappy life is because of segregation and lack of appreciation that the current society has for them. Generally, this perception will help me as an individual to adhere to what is positive for the disabled person when I interact with them. I will be able to optimize my appreciation to everything a disabled person does as a way of helping him or her lead a happy life.