Today's media portrayal of those with disabilities is rather skewed in my opinion. I happen to notice this in the movie The Fault in our Stars, a novel written by John Green. A blind boy, a women with cancer, and another boy with cancer and a prosthetic leg. Even those with disabilities that do not affect their physical appearance are treated differently.
The people that do the same things that we do in our everyday lives are almost singled out and treated like they are just their disability.
Doesn't sound like fun.
Nancy Mairs, a women with Multiple Sclerosis, explains that having a disability "doesn't devour [you] wholly" (Mairs). Anyone with a disability does not become their disability, but the media continue to treat people that are not normal or natural like there is something wrong with them. They live and breathe as we do, so why treat them like they don't?
Having a disability is normal, and it is unfortunate that in this world there is only one normal. The media does a great deal of isolating those that are both different physically, and mentally. The only way to change that is to shape the media in our likeness.
