Disability is Natural - Discover a new way of thinking about disabled people, learning disabilities and physical and mental handicaps. One of the five apples is green. One American in five is a person with a disability. A green apple is more like red apples than different. An individual with a disability is more like people without disabilities than different.
Apples are natural.
Having a disability is a natural condition of the human experience. From from the beginning of time, mythical perceptions and stereotypical attitudes have caused us to view individuals with disabilities as different, aberrant, deficient, incompetent, and more. But like gender and ethnicity, disability is simply one of many natural characteristics of being human. There have always been people with disabilities in the world, and there always will be. One out of every five Americans is a person with a disability.