Disability

One quote that really stood out to me in "The Social Construction of Disability" was, "the more society regards disability as a private matter, and people with disabilities as belonging to the private sphere, the more disability it creates..." I like Wendell's point here because by making it be "awkward" to put disabilities on public television or talk about it openly only makes it more of a mystery to people. Such a wide range of disabilities exist that it shouldn't even be an option to have one category of "disabled" people. Working at the Special Olympics showed me that mentally disabled people are often the strongest inside because of what they have to deal with on a day to day basis. They are often more willing to talk about their disabilities and explain them to an average person than one would think.