Children With Disibilities

Children With Disibilities

Children with disabilities may be different in looks or physical stature, but the heart is full of love and joy most of the time. When most people look at these children, they are struck by the odd look and what we consider not normal. Think about these kids, they only know what their life is in that way and it's normal to them, so we only need to think of it in that way. They did not ask to be that way and we need to feel that it is different and not feel that they are pitiful or look at them with anything other that love.

Disabilities are what we might refer to as the disability to perform, what we call normal activities that we perform everyday. I would only ask you what is normal? Children with disabilities must have help to perform certain activities that we perform without ever thinking about it. We need help in certain areas to be able to complete certain task, but do we consider ourself with disabilities. I can not perform certain math problems or fly an airplane, but I do not consider myself with disabilities. What is normal and what is not, I am very intrigued with that question daily.

Children with disabilities, we look at differently than we look at adults with the same disabilities and I wonder what the difference might be. I can only think that the adult is more imposing than the children with the disabilities. No matter who we might come across with the disabilities, we need to be normal and treat those normal. It does not say we can not help them or assist them in some way, but treat them and assist people with disabilities with dignity and character.

Disabilities might include wheel chair, short limbs, no limbs or any other number of things that we consider not normal. I only feel we need to talk about these things in order to overcome our disabilities to accept people that have these disabilities that we don't want to talk about or acknowledge as part of our lives. Do you have friends that have any type disabilities or are you not able to overcome the fear or the feel sorry for them syndrome. I can remember as a young boy playing with a down syndrome kid and only having fun and seeing the joy on his face as well as his mother that someone was not afraid of him.

I am not special in anyway, but have accepted what these disabilities are and try to look at them as just different and not abnormal. I feel that the children I work with everyday are so special and treat them as normal as I do anyone else. This is a very personal subject to me as I see the good and bad on a daily basis.

Children disabilities as well as any other disabilities that are out there are not tragic to those that live with them daily, but rather their way of life, no matter what we think about it. The tragedy is when we are unable to overlook such disabilities and treat them with dignity and character. We can overcome these shortfalls in our character by just knowing they feel they are just fine, but know they are just a little different in certain ways.