ABLEISM: A Morally Incorrect Attitude Within A Politically Correct Society

We have, over the many weeks of this series, tried to bring both those with disabilitities and those who, at the moment, are not, a sense of the daily struggles, biases and discriminations and generally  negative attitudes that many within society have towards people with disabilities... whether physical, developmental, learning or mental. This mistreatment and practice of excluding those with special challenges is called, Ableism.

This alienation between people with disabilities and those who society consider "able-bodied" has been perpetrated and even instigated from the earliest time in human history and continues even in this politically correct 21st century. 

Throughout history.. we have been painted with one sweeping stroke; ie, we are all cripples, gimps,intellectually slow, hard of hearing, and, whose opinions, generally hold little weight of importance... in fact, do any of us even have opinions, feelings, preferences, desires, likes and dislikes. Pssst... are we even human, in the strickest sense of the word?

Well, last week we went to great length to reveal the divine and scientific connection that every human being has with one another. Like it or not,  WE ARE FAMILY, Y'ALL!!

So, why, if we are all just one big family... with many racial groups, ethnic heritages, religious preferences, gender distinctions...some of us are young, while others are old; some of us are rich, which others are poor; and some of us are disabled , while others are able-bodied. If we all did come from the same gene pool then why does Ableism continue to raise it's ugly head, again and again. It is sad to see how we all too often see each other as "them" rather tthan kin.