Question L

I think this video demonstrates that th human body is highly capable of not only adapting to changes , but living with changes. I feel as though people who are "able" bodied make judgements for people with disabilities because they cannot imagine how it would be to live like the person who is disabled. They often over empathize and end up feeling bad for an individual with a disability. This video shows that many people with disabilities want to be seen as what they are, able-bodied. If a person with a disability can do the same contemporary dance that a non disabled person can do than there should be no problem there, and mostly there is not. I believe that people over empathize with the person who has the disability which makes the person seem inadequate or useless because that is how the able-bodied person would feel if they were in that situation, especially because it is so foreign to them. I can realte that Susan Wendell's article because I believe that she talks about disability being socially constructed. I believe that over empathising with people whow have disabilities is a social construction, like gender. People feel safe and secure in their male or female category and all those outside of the category threaten their security, I suppose? The same is true with disability because many people feel uncomfortable around people with disabilities because they assume that disabled people's social needs and wants are different than their own. I feel that disability and gender are in a way similar in that many people see "the rejected body" as Wendell put it.