The first thought that crosses the mind of an able-bodied individual upon seeing a disabled person will undoubtedly be about their disability. This is mainly because it is the first thing a person would notice, as it could be sensed from a distance. However, due to the way disability is portrayed in the media and in our minds, the analysis of a disabled person rarely progresses beyond the initial observation. This is the underlying problem behind why disabled people feel so unappreciated and discriminated against. Society compartmentalizes and, in doing so, places disabled people in an entirely different category than fully abled human beings. This is the underlying theme of the essays “Disability” by Nancy Mairs, “Why the Able-Bodied Just Don't Understand” by Andre Dubus, and “Should I Have Been Killed at Birth?” by Harriet Johnson. In the essay “Disability,” Nancy Mairs discusses the media's lack of attention to disabled people, writing: “Representing disabled people in the ordinary activities of life is to admit that there is something ordinary about disability itself, which is they can enter in anyone's life." An ordinary person has very little exposure to disabled people and therefore can only draw conclusions from what is seen in the media. As soon as people can imagine disabled people as normal people with a debilitating condition, they can start to respect them and provide for their needs without it feeling like an afterthought or a burden. As Mairs wrote: “The fact is that ours is the only minority you can join involuntarily, without notice, at any time.” point of view, it is easy to see that many disabled people were ordinary people before some kind of accident. Mairs develops this pose...... middle of paper ......nse, Johnson says: “We are 'worse '? I do not believe. Not in any meaningful sense. There are too many variables." Like any human being, this unique characteristic sums them up completely. Being disabled is just one aspect of their life and they have the same ability to be happy as anyone else. Although these three authors have different reasons for writing their essays, be it media injustice, ignorance or ethical controversies, they all share a fundamental principle: disabled people are not seen by the public as "normal people" and are unfairly removed from the eyes of the public. public. Disabled people have the same capacity to love, desire and hurt as any other human being and deserve all the rights and privileges we can offer them. They should be able to enter the same buildings, be represented in the media and certainly have the right to live.