Just A Little TAP

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I am a temporarily abled person. Chances are that you are just like me. What does this mean? That we are doomed to end our lives living in "the odd tribe," a shell of what we once were (Soyster)? Quite honestly, the discussion that we had left me thinking quite pessimistically, more so than usual. For example, what's the point of trying so hard to accomplish something if it's going to fall apart eventually? Sooner or later, we all will develop a disability, be it mental or physical. Knowing that at the end of the tunnel lies a wheelchair is a sorrowing thought. The worst part? That I continue to lament my future while some currently have disabilities. According to MSNBC, 80% of all those that live with disabilities live in poverty. So for those that need extra help, they probably don't have enough money to be properly aided! I, however, am a (somewhat) healthy teen with comfortable heating typing this blog post on a laptop. How am I supposed to feel? Should I get over myself and try to help and show pity toward disabled people? Or should I just stand by and let them be, approaching them as normal? In either circumstance, I feel as though I am committing a wrongdoing by treating them as different or not helping them at all. I know I would probably receive a 2 for this paragraph because I can't present a solution, but I don't know what to do. This is a difficult subject to talk or even think about, but I have no idea what to do. What would you do? Or, I guess, what DO you do?

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  1. Interesting blog Nabeel. I was having the same troubling discussion in my mind about how to treat disabled people. I've always gotten out of my way to open doors for them, but it seems by the way Maris is talking that we shouldn't be doing that. However, I think we can make their life slightly more comfortable by doing the little things.

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  2. I really liked the way you address the reader in this blog. The way you ask for solutions to this problem makes your audience think if there even is one. Also I was drawn in by your title, very creative. Well done Nabeel!

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