On Being a Cripple

Proposal

In some eastern countries such as Japan, it is a widespread opinion that most disabled people cannot make contribution to the society and they should be taken care by others. Many employers are not willing to employ disabled people, and disabled employees are treated differently in the workplace. In “On Being a Cripple”, Nancy Maris describes a story about herself who is an independent and brave disabled women. She believes that she is a useful person and is unsatisfied with the social stereotype which regards the female disabled as invaluable people.This essay is going to investigate different struggling that Maris has as a disabled woman and how her disability makes her marginalized in society. thesis statement: Disabled people was marginalized in society because people’s sympathy of disabled people that cause disabled people think them different with others, social expectation and stereotype influenced disabled people hard to identify themselves and  long period disease painful kill the willpower of disabled people and cause them to avoid connect with society. The society that Maris stays in treats the disabled as someone who always needs help.It tries to make disabled people’s lives better by offering them equipment and services that make them useless and meaningless. This actually weaken disabled people’s ability to live and act as normal people and make them even more disabled; Also, disabled people get pressure from  social exceptional and stereotype because people use a fix stereotype to regard how disabled people should be. People’s stereotype that limited disabled people’s behaviour and firmly believe that today’s ideal women could not be disabled.  Most importantly, the disease and painful accompanied with disabled people all the time, and frittered disable people’s will power away. Disabled people easily to lose the self- esteem so that lead to them avoid communicate with society and worry to receive discrimination from normal people. So many disabled people choose a self- closing valve way to live in society.