Ableism: Video Analysis

Discussion #2

To my understanding from the reading material, ableism is a group of beliefs and practices which certain individuals have disabilities that are either developmental, can be emotional and have physical or psychiatric effects. When it comes to the impacts of ableism, the restrictions it has on people’s lives or living with the disabilities are: These individuals have low self-esteem, are blind or not able to see, they do have difficulty hearing or listening to others, frequently and regularly have problems with walking or climbing, are often depressed or anxious which continuously hampers daily or normal activities and become disabled intellectually over time. Unfortunately, what I am sad to mention is that from the readings, intellectual disability affects roughly accounts for 3 out of every 100 individuals who are diagnosed. On the other hand, people who have ableism are not considered able-body people. They also do not have the privileges as an able-body person. Many people who have ableism have challenges and struggles which they
For example, Naty Rico is a physically disabled Latina woman with ableism. She talks about how she was able to overcome structural barriers which favored able-body people. Her story is very interesting and I give her a lot of credit. After watching her video, I do see things differently that I did not see before and how able-body people usually do not see or are unaware of the struggles and challenges ableism people have to face and go through each day. Usually, people are unsociable who have these sort of disabilities. This is certainly not the case with Naty, who wants to educate her community and others of the challenges she faced with her physical disabilities. I also did realize until now that pity and paternalism are common with people who have ableism. Based on what I have mentioned, this is why people with ableism have constant challenges and impacts facing them daily who are