A person is said to have a disability if they find it difficult or impossible to perform one or more activities of everyday living. While disability usually stems from a physical or mental medical condition, one can distinguish between an impairment (some ability is objectively less than average) and a deviation from the average that by itself isn't better or worse, but that is a problem due to the attitude of society or the fact that standard facilities are based on the average, and that there is a the lack of tools.
For example:
As recently as the 1960s, left-handedness was seen as an abnormality. In schools in the Western world, left-handed children were forced to write with their right hand and punished if they did not comply. By the 1980s, left-handedness was accepted as simply a difference; a physical characteristic. Yet if tools such as scissors and corkscrews are only available in their right-handed forms, a left-handed person finds themselves disabled.
Thus, in the social model of disability, the disability is caused by society and the physical environment. Someone who is unable to walk and needs a wheelchair has an impairment; however, the social exclusion they may experience (lack of accessible transport, no adapted public toilets, buildings which are innaccessible) is caused by their environment, not their physical condition.
Discrimination of those disabled is sometimes termed ableism.
See also
- List of disabilities
- Disability etiquette
- Architectonic barrier[?]
- Disability Discrimination Act
- Learning disability
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