Week 3: Body Disabilities

Body dysfunctions or disfigurations are something that are very common among people. Some of them are noticeable and some of them hide within our bodies. The word disability is very different from being disabled in my opinion. A disability could mean a number of things but to actually be disabled means that your body isn't as physically fit as somebody else is. In the article, "I'm Not a "Person With a Disability": I'm a Disabled person," I've noticed a lot of significant things that happen to Lisa that also happened in the world around us. She doesn't believe that she is disabled. She believes that the world and the society that we live in give her the label "disabled." She proposes the ideology the being disabled and having a disability basically comes down to the fact that you can be medically or physically injured or disabled, or you can be socially disabled. And by saying socially disabled, she means that the world has provided you with a label that only they can change. After reading through this article and after looking at the last two themes from Week 1 and Week, I have noticed a common trend. Whether it's being fat or overweight, or you're a body builder or you're anorexic, or you are disabled or you have a disability, the world around us will always give us a label. The society that we live in today will always determine who we are before we learn who we are ourselves. It's like we are predetermined to be characterized a certain type of way because we look or act or dress a certain type of way. And after we are labeled, people begin to harshly judge us or criticize us because we don't fit into the social norm. I think that we need to stop labeling people and the way that they are all together.