| Living normally with a disability around the world, and | | | | confront. This confrontation has given rise to people |
| throughout the history of mankind, people have lived | | | | discovering an inner strength or capability which allows |
| with disabilities. Blindness, deafness, neurological | | | | for them to build emotional and physical strength to |
| disorder, missing limbs, and other afflictions, these | | | | work beyond their illness, and to be able to live well. |
| conditions have afflicted people throughout the | | | | Regardless of the solution which people employ to |
| centuries and have all been a hindrance to the people | | | | work beyond their disability, people have managed to |
| which have found themselves in the situation of living | | | | live a normal and productive life while disabled, and it is |
| with such conditions. | | | | likely that people will be able to find better ways of |
| However, throughout this same history, people have | | | | overcoming disabilities as time progresses, and |
| been able to live long and productive lives, even with | | | | innovations continue. |
| disabilities which would seemingly rob them of a | | | | With the courage that disabled people show, certainly |
| livelihood. People have overcome their disabilities by | | | | there will be inspiration for future generations of |
| finding tasks which they can perform even with their | | | | individuals with illness to be able to work beyond what |
| affliction, have found means of working around their | | | | physical or psychological conditions that may bring |
| disability, or even have overcome their disability through | | | | them hardship. Throughout time, it has been shown that |
| various tools or techniques. | | | | with courage, regardless of the hardship that is |
| When first afflicted by a disability, people who once | | | | present, a person who is healthy or disabled can and |
| had relatively full range of capabilities may encounter | | | | will find the strength to go on with a life that is as close |
| hardship. This hardship results in a period of adjustment | | | | to what people call normal as possible, and will even |
| which the individual must go through before they can | | | | prosper, even in situations which seem quite dire, and |
| lead a normal life. Without adjustment, a person who | | | | can even prove that a seemingly dismal situation can |
| has become disabled may stagnate in their situation. | | | | be lived with, and can be turned into a situation of |
| With acceptance though, a person can cope, and learn | | | | strength, and solidity which is something for anyone to |
| how to overcome the disability that they are forced to | | | | be proud of. |