A lot of people all around the world are disabled. They struggle through the challenge of each new day.  Some people don’t really get how hard it is, and would rather stare and feel sorry for them, then to just try to understand.
There are even people in this world that are  sick, and feel the need to mock someone’s disability to humor themselves.

Growing up, for me, was different from anyone else I knew. Both of my parents were disabled. My mother was born with Cerebral Palsy in her legs, which made walking very difficult for her. Which was caused by using forceps to her head when she was born, that caused brain damage and they  broke her back when they were pulling her out. The doctors didn’t know her back was broken until it was too late.
Doctors told her Mother that she would never walk, never have children, never do the things she would want to do, she defied the odds.  Because she walks, though it may look different than how you and I walk, she had children, she has lived a very busy life, doing things she never thought she would be able to do. Though she is limited, she has gotten farther than anyone ever thought she could.
My father was a severe diabetic,  in his later years he lost 80% of his vision because of it. He had to use a walking stick and had a pilot dog.  Also, had a stroke and minor heart attacks . A massive heart attack is what eventually took his life six years ago, at the age of 52.

People with Disabilities are labeled as “Handicapped”…. I have always believed that the people that do not take the time to understand and would rather make fun of them and humiliate them are the ones who should be labeled with the handicap. Because they are the ones with disabled minds.

I see a lot of people stare at my mother when she walks, she gets really embarrassed about going into public places because she knows that people stare.
I don’t get the point in that I guess. I suppose it is because I am “educated” when it comes to people that are different, and I have an understanding about it, that not many people do.
Im not trying to sound like some public service announcement or anything… But I feel that too many people in this world sit in judgment of one another, and maybe if you just stop and think about what someone else has had to struggle through, what humiliation they have had to get through have made them a whole lot stronger than you ever could be.

I guess you could think of it this way…. Imagine getting married one day and having a child with a disability, How would it make you feel if people were constantly staring and making fun of your child? Probably changes your perspective to look at it that way??

- Abby D.