Common Ways People with a Disability are viewed and treated

Common Ways People with a  Disability are viewed and treated

Unfortunately, and inaccurately, people with disabilities are often viewed as:

• victims, or objects of pity

• horrible or grotesque

• burdens, either on society or on their families and carers

• evil, or some threat to the comfort and safety of others

• unable, or assumed to be unable, to do things

• having multiple disabilities (such as assuming that a person who uses a wheelchair also has an intellectual disability)

• childlike

• “special”

Such misconceptions are based on insufficient or inaccurate information about people with disabilities and can perpetuate inappropriate interactions.

… such misconceptions are based on insufficient or
inaccurate information about people with disabilities and can perpetuate inappropriate interactions.