In a world as perception driven as ours is today, most people tend to take in events exactly how they see them portrayed through media etc. And in their defense the media does tend to do a few things right, such as showing what's going on in the world as far as news and politics is concerned. However as a side effect the media also creates an example of a model life, as it is something we are always looking at. However there are some things in the media that we do tend to miss out on, a couple parts of society that are purposely excluded. Among the excluded tend to be people with disabilities. The fear of showing something like that in media, that unfortunately is something that could happen to us at any moment, simply doesn't give the momentary and temporary emotional drive that we are all seeking. Grasping the reality of their lives, and their existence alongside us requires a level of maturity and acceptance that the media isn't willing to go through with, casting aside all moral reasons for bringing humans as a people together. This "denial of disability"(Mairs 15) is something that plagues our society, creating a facade that the uninformed and the closed-minded choose to live under, which simply further distances us between ourselves. Disabilities are something we need to accept and something we shouldn't be ashamed of showing in our media, as even stated by Mairs they want to be seen just like the rest of as, as in the end we truly are all humans. This is an accommodation we should make, and one we can if we are all just willing to open our eyes and deepen our hearts a bit.
