Journal #1- John Brasch Letter

1/27/14

EDCI 3144 Spring- Brennan Ahlin- Journal Entry #1- John Brasch Letter

I have never felt uncomfortable being around someone with an obvious disability, and can totally understand where Mr. Brasch is coming from in his letter. I’m almost positive that every person with a disability would agree with him and feel the same way. I believe that there is no person who is identical to another, making everyone different, and someone with a disability is just another kind of “different”.  Maybe they aren’t able to walk, or see, or hear, but are brilliant with math, can read a book a day, or extremely artistic. Where I can walk, see, and hear, but am terrible at math, take at least a week or two to get through a book, and can barely draw stick figures. I feel like everyone’s differences balance out when compared to one another.

I feel like there are some people in society who feel uncomfortable around a person with a disability because they feel as if they would have to walk on egg shells to make sure that they don’t make the other person feel uncomfortable or that they could possible offend them. It’s ironic because usually its when a person is trying to not make the other person feel uncomfortable or offend them, they usually do. Instead, they should treat that person like any other human being without a disability, because that is normally all they really want. If everyone worked to look past a person’s disability and treated them like you would anyone else, we would be able to resolve this issue. If society all made a mental note to treat everyone the exact same, then there wouldn’t be an issue of making either person feel uncomfortable. That, and if everyone was conscious about where they parked in the parking lot.