I think that disability has been
conceptualized by individuals in different modes and notions from social, moral
and medical perspectives. Disability, either physical or mental can be jotted
down as something which a neighbouring person of a disabled person perceives in
context of his situation, past incidences and culture where the affected person
has been living. I think that it is your culture which makes him think about
the rationality of disability in a person. I have been acquainted with disabled
persons and most familiar model of disability to me is moral model. We live in
a society where disabled persons have been judged by me and many others as a
test of his faith which can be comforting and at the same time a sense of
purpose for him. My familiarity has grown strong with people believing that it
is the moral concept that disability is caused due to wrong deeds by him or by
any family members.
Perceiving disability through social
model is a new way of making this society recognize about disabled people are
normal and we should not pose any negative attitude towards them as that can act
as a social barrier. Through the course readings I have been able to understand
that human beings are disabled through judgement of the societal organized way
which we formulate while discriminating this type of people. My personal
perspective about disability is thus changed through understanding disabled people
as victims of moral judgement of individuals and attitudes about the affected. By
adhering to the all the basic models of perceiving disability, I found the
social model to be interesting and most crucial in the modern world of
distinguishing disability as the other two models are depicting disability to
be a social or medial impairment which an individual suffers.
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