Disabilities

When I think of a person with disabilities, I think of an elderly person in a wheelchair than cannot live a normal life. A major stereotype of a person with disabilities is they are useless. They are different and need special treatment. The media tends to only pay attention to the disabled when it is an inspirational story or a matter of laws. They don't see the disabled as a factor in everyday life. They don't think about how they are affected every day. This not only occurs in media, it happens with everyone. People parking in handicap spots that aren't actually handicap. People perceiving a car with a handicapped tag as a car that drives slow and needs to get off the road. And the phrase that always comes up, "Why do they even have a license?" It is apparant that there is a problem with the way people with disabilities are perceived. Not only in the media, but everywhere.