Judging People with Disabilities

What does normal look like? I ask the question in the attempt to focus on judging and what is normal. Everybody has their own perceptions of what is normal and they make judgments based off of these perceptions. Many of these perceptions can cause someone to be judgmental. Judging someone has gone far beyond the color of someone’s skin. People judge you on everything. Where you live, how you talk, dress, people you hang with and definitely how you look. My mother use to always tell me, “don’t judge a book by its cover,” I know it is cliché but it does help when you encounter something or someone that might not be what is considered quote, unquote, the normal.
Unfortunately, there are people that live in this world that is different. They are people with disabilities. What is a disability? I used to think that a disability was just someone in a wheel chair or someone that was mentally retarded. According to the dictionary, a disability is 1. The condition of being disabled; incapacity. 2. Something that disable; handicap. 3. A disadvantage or deficiency, especially a physical or mental impairment that interferes with or prevents normal achievement in a particular area. Whether you were born with a disability or you become disabled later in life, it is something you must live with for the rest of your life if it can’t be corrected. People with disabilities are judged and discriminated against every day. If there was more understanding about living with a disability of living with someone with a disability, maybe judging these individual can be minimized. Why is it so hard to allow people to look different without the criticism of others? No one is perfect but society judges people as if there were perfect people in the world.
I had no idea how serious judging people with disabilities was until I had to do a research paper on the subject. I found a story on line about someone with Down syndrome. Down syndrome affects are very physical and