On Being a Cripple

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Out line:

Thesis: : Disabled people was marginalized in society because people’s sympathy of disabled people that cause disabled people think them different with others, social expectation and stereotype influenced disabled people hard to identify themselves and long period disease painful kill the willpower of disabled people and cause them to avoid connect with society.

I: Disabled people were marginalized in society because people’s sympathy of disabled people that cause disabled people thinks them different with others.

a. grocery clerks tear my checks out of my checkbook for me, and sales clerks find chairs to put into dressing rooms when I want to try on clothes

b, “ the people I work with make sure I teach at times when I am least likely to be fatigued, in place I can get to, with the materials I need.”

II: social expectation and stereotype influenced disabled people hard to identify themselves

a “ like fat people, who are expected to be jolly, cripples must bear their lot meekly and cheerfully. A grumpy cripple isn’t playing by the rules.”

b, Today’s ideal woman who lives on the glossy pages of dozens of magazines, seems to be between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five;... But she is never a cripple.”

III: long period disease painful kill the willpower of disabled people and cause them to avoid connect with society.

A, “One may also lose one’s sense of humour: that’s easiest to lose and the hardest to survive without.”

B, “Almost every pickle that I get into as a result of my weakness and clumsiness- and I get into plenty- is funny as well as maddening and sometimes painful.

C “Although she can sit in a high- backed wheelchair, because she is incontinent she refuses to go out at all, even though incontinence pants, which are readily available at any pharmacy ,could protect her from embarrassment.”