I hate it when people look at a person who has this disability and they either keep staring at that poor person or just point him in a horrible manner that is just so rude.
I was always taught in my childhood that it is considered rude to look at a person with disabilities because they'll know you're looking at them over pity and that would be the last thing they would ever want anyone to give them. Disabled people, as such, want to be looked at as a normal human being, want to be treated as fairly as those who don't have the disability they do.
I have gone and extended that concept to even talking about them rudely - whether it was in front of them or behind them. It's just completely offensive. It's almost as if you're asking God Himself to bestow that bad feature upon you.
It's just not funny in any way imaginable.
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
everyone's a human being
Posted by Sleepless In Muscat at 20:38
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i completely agree. it's really embarassing for anyone in their right sense to be staring at someone with a disability. i dont know why but i find people in dubai are really annoying when it comes to this. they just have a habit of STARING. while in places like saudi, people just don't care. when i was there for 3mrah, even if u wore the crappiest clothes, nobody glanced twice.
it's such a shame how people just stare at others. weird how it never occurs to them that their looks might embarass or make the 'disabled', cringe :@
i agree with u.Even i don't like to look at the disabled like if they are something to have pity on.I mean they have feelings too and these people are more sensitive and they want to lead a normal life.those people feel bad when others stare at them.And they get hurt.And those people who hurt others are the one who shud be pitied.
MD & Sara:
I feel very much that if we (the onlookers) were to be in their situation - God forbid - that only then would we know what they feel.
If anything, people who look onto disbaled people, are only disabled in their minds because they all have this perspective in the brains.
Which is a shame really.
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