Unfortunately, according to the WHO, it is estimated that around 1 billion people in the world that is one in seven have some form of disability. We can find disabled people in our relatives, friends, and in our community and they have equal rights to be treated the same as everyone else.
Most of us treat people with disability as a child or in a way which denies their maturity in age or experience. But it is important to remember that people with disabilities are just as smart as everyone else.
google.com, pub-2494375772180737, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0What Is Learning Disability?
A learning disability is a reduced intellectual capacity and obscurity with everyday activities. It may include difficulty in household tasks, socializing, or managing money. Such people take longer to learn and require special support to develop new skills.
Individuals with a learning disability, in general, take more time to learn and may require backing to foster new abilities, understand knotty information and work together with others.
Why We Treat People With Learning Disability Like Children?
It is a normal practice that we treat people with learning disabilities like children but sometimes it may not be intentional. It happens when you see or discover that the individual you are communicating with has some sort of disability and we start assuming that this person requires special attention or deserves special care and we start treating such people as special people or like children.
Sometimes we feel that people with a learning disability cannot make their decisions so we often do not involve them in any decision-making and take steps even without consulting them. In this situation, we think that people with a learning disability are not well aware of the things which are good or bad for them and we start behaving as we do with children.
In some situations, we anticipate that people with a learning disability cannot perform some particular tasks so we avoid them and do not give attention to the person with the disability. In this situation, we prefer to address people whom we think are mature enough to solve the particular problem.
Normally people with learning disabilities suffered from a lack of confidence. They can not perform or hesitant to perform as we expect from normal humans. We feel that they cannot express their feelings and avoid socializing. They don’t accept friendships and maintain a distance while accepting or developing new relations. It leads to understanding that they are not capable enough to take their own decisions and cant evaluate the situation intellectually.
Due to infantilization, we don’t take the desires, decisions, and opinions of disable persons seriously. We believe that the decision of such a person is not important and this is something that occurs to disabled persons more frequently. We don’t allow them to be independent and believe that people can take advantage of them. Parents may be more protective in such cases and they show such behavior out of fear of what the world could do to them.
It is recommended to treat every person with respect and basic human rights regardless of what condition they may have or who they are. Avoiding infantilization is a great way to prove admiration to those who are different, but not less. They simply should be taught in manners that are custom-fitted to their remarkable learning styles.
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