--Tom Odell, "I Think It's Going To Rain Today"
This week in class we discussed "Disability" by Nancy Mairs, an informative essay that describes the trials and tribulations the disabled encounter daily. She discusses that although the disabled are "just like every other" person, society still "looms" on the "embodiment" of their disease (Mairs para 4). With a disability, she enjoys food, "drives a car" and tries to maintain beauty with "lotions", similarly to most women in America. Yet the media (movie productions and advertisements) portrays disability as the "major premise" of a woman's life and excludes the character's personality and individuality (Mairs para 3). With the idea that disability ruins one's jovial life, society is manipulated to view those with a disability as helpless and hopeless, feelings that a person would rather do without. Society will then look down upon them and ignore their presence because they do not want to "conform" to someone less fortunate than themselves (Mairs para 6). Ultimately, the disabled become outcasts and don't fit in with others because they are different and unable to conform with the rest of society. Sadly, people forget that the disabled live their lives comparably and our own happiness could mitigate in a moment. After all, we are just "Temporarily Abled Persons", drunk on the idea that our euphoria is infinite (Mairs para 7).
