Blog #5

Last weeks class consist of us going around the classroom and discussing about different questions that we had to answer within our group. I can say I had a blast talking about these questions because all my group members could relate to the questions. We not only discuss about the hardships about being Latinos and how hard we have it on a daily basis but also of how proud we are to be Latinos. I also got into a really good conversation with one of my group members of what the difference between a Latino and a Hispanic. Something so simple as that turned out to be really complex in the end.

I chose this image because it pretty much sums up about how a person will not be put down because they have a disability. The type of people that have a positive attitude when they are diagnosed with a disability makes us the healthy individuals look bad. Sometimes us healthy individuals complain about the smallest things in the world like I don’t know what to wear, I don’t know what to eat, I don’t want to go to work today, my life is hard. On the other hand we have individuals who wish they can complain about those same things and be healthy. But instead they have something that we healthy individuals don’t always have, a positive attitude. Having a positive attitude makes a huge difference in the way you live weather you have a disability or not. Looking at the bright side of life is something so valuable that not everybody holds. And those who do hold it will not have time to complain and live every minute and every second of their lives to the fullest.

I have seen personally of how people with a disability have been treated. I once came upon a situation where I was riding the public bus to school and I noticed that an individual was getting upset at the fact that the bus driver was taking a long time to get a person in a wheelchair accommodated. He had to lower the bus, unload the ramp, and lastly fastened the person on the wheelchair onto a space at the beginning of the bus. This certain individual was making rude comments to the bus driver and the person on the wheelchair because he was running late for work. The bus driver got verbal too and told off the individual making the rude remarks. And of course the person in the wheelchair looked offended. That is what individuals like him have to go through on a daily basis. Being discriminated because they have a disability. We as a society don’t take a few minutes to talk or acknowledge individuals like these because right off the bat we think they are “retarded.” From a personal experience I’ve talked to a person on a wheelchair and I was surprised of how much knowledge he shared with me. Then I wondered that it is possible for individuals like these to become the next Bill Gates or Steve Jobs.