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An open letter to those who don't understand disabilty

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An open letter to those who don't understand disabilty


Dear whom ever this may concern,

I'm going to talk a little about disability and how you can change your point of view and your actions.

About 19% of people in the United States have some sort of disability. Now that doesn’t seem like a large percentage but that’s roughly 56.7 million people. The term disability is very broad and there are many different disabilities out there. Having a disability isn’t as easy as anyone thinks. Patients often have to fight for services, insurance companies to pay for treatments and drugs and many other things. People with disabilities are commonly discriminated against for how they look, speak, and act.

There is something called invisible and visible disabilities. They pretty much are self explanitory, invisible is a disability you can't physically see in the person when you look at them, it might be a learning disability or hearing impaired. Visible disability is when people can't see the disability, the person might be in a wheel chair or have physical signs that they are impaired.

What my goal of this inform people about disability and not always assume the worst when talking or interacting with someone who isn't like the rest of us. It's important to treat them the same way as any one else. They have their own thoughts, ideas, personalities, and actions. People with disabilities are just like any one else. Their minds might work differently but the world needs people to think differently, to solve problems that may not seem obvious to the rest of us.

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