“Sometimes people are born with disabilities, but it’s communities that handicap them.”​​Anonymous

I agree with the statement above. Because when people born with disabilities and the surrounding people or community are born with the same disease. He would still be "handicapped" but he wouldn't be treated as a handicap because all the things in that community would be built for "handicapped" so he wouldn't be the only one that is "special". When people born with disabilities in a "normal" community. People all around him would be different from him so all the things built is all for "normal" people and people will have to treat him special like go to different schools or use different facilities so people would think he is "handicapped" only because he is different from the rest. For example, a person that needs to ride a wheelchair in a "normal" community would have to go through the "special" slope built for "special" people to get up the stairs IF the building have it built. But if the whole community needs to ride in wheelchairs, there will not be buildings that does not have slope built and the person wouldn't be treated special, in the opposite, people that are "normal" will be treated special. As people with disabilities live in a "normal" community more, it will not be just other people think they're special and they them self will think that other people are better than them and they are different.

Tiger Wang
8/18/15