Living with Disability

Disability is an inconsistent topic, which is completely different on either side. In order for a healthy person to truly understand the experiences of people with disabilities, we must look at people with disabilities and see our lives. If people see disabled people becoming more realistic, they will be seen as more ordinary, and it will make both sides more interactive. People with disabilities are living a difficult life, but that does not mean there is no value in life. Nancy Mairs, Andre Dubus, Harriet McBryde Johnson are all disabled, wrote about their experiences and opinions.

Many people in the community believe that disability is a problem for others. They do not believe that obstacles will affect their lives, they rarely consider the experience of people with disabilities and the experience of taking care of people with disabilities. Without direct experience, they claim that at least things are better than the past. In September 2008 I was appointed chairman of the Care of Persons with Disabilities Care. The main responsibility of the committee is to provide the Australian government with expert advice and information on the formulation and implementation of national disability strategies. Through its members, the Council provides a means to keep disabled people, their families, friends, and carers expressing their policies and strategies affecting their lives.

More than 650 million people live in disabled people worldwide. People with disabilities often live in the edge of society in every part of the world, in every country, and have lost some basic experience in their lives. They do not want to go to school, find jobs, have their own house, make family, nurture children, socialize or vote. Disabled people constitute the largest and most vulnerable minority in the world. According to the United Nations Handbook on "Refusing to Equality: Achieving the Rights of People with Disabilities", these figures are irritated: 20% of the poorest in the world are disabled, 98% of children in developing countries I have not attended school. One of the disabled street children, the literacy rate of disabled adults is as low as 3%, and in some countries the literacy rate of disabled women is 1%.