There are challenges in keeping calm with the challenges of inaccessibility and disability management. I find it interesting that the able-bodied world sometimes is so busy telling people with disabilities how their lives can be so much better "if only" that the world neglects listening to what people with disabilities can offer. Yet people with disabilities are recognized by the able-bodied world as resilient and very superficial ways. People always told me growing up how brave they thought I was, my response was that I was not brave just living.
Why then are people with disabilities not recognized for the contributions developed through their resilience in coping with the world that wasn't meant to include them. In employment and education I have seen people with disabilities use innovative skills to reach goals and milestones but the sad part is the rest of the world is not aware of these innovations and rarely recognizes the depth of that person's contribution.
If these contributions were recognized with the full merit it would probably make schools and the workplace much more efficient places however somehow people with disabilities are still seen as liabilities to productivity and efficiency. The truth is the untapped potential of people with disabilities makes them underclassed by society systems but most find ways of using innovation to outsmart most of the same systems. People with disabilities are contributors to society and the longer the potential for innovation is not recognized the longer the world goes without a wealth of knowledge and skills.
