Let's have some coffee, biscotti, and talk about why I think people are afraid of disabled people. Scary! So our society has a rich history and also a very palpable feeling of being uncomfortable seeing disabled people around. While there are a lot of reasons that could be used to explain that, I personally think that one of the biggest ones is that people don't have faced the fact that it could happen to them. If you are able, buddy, you are one car accident away or medical issue away from being permanently disabled. And okay, let's be honest, it's a terrifying thought that everything can change in a split second that you have no control over. So instead of dealing with that, we project that discomfort and fear onto the people who it has occurred to. Which is, and this is true, not very cool. I think people who create a false comfort in pushing away the disabled as the other. We could never be that we aren't like them. Perhaps just a suggestion, our revulsion with the idea of disability comes from an unwillingness for us to look at our own mortality, humanity, and absolute lack of control that we have over so many aspects of our lives.