Life behind the eyes of a person in trouble
Being close to someone not properly defined “normal” from the society in which we all live in helps you understand many things. We should be an emancipated society, a society composed of people who are judged for what they are not as they appear.
Unfortunately real life comes out in a completely different way. There are so many discrimination and people are judged only for their clothes or their cars. Above all, people are classified from our society in “normal people” and “strange people”.
Staying in touch with someone with disabilities helps you see your life from a different point of view and helps you to better know the people who you are surrounded.
Walking through the streets with someone with “troubles” can make you understand what it means to be avoided, to be laughed and judged even before to have a chance to say just one word. Another things that you can better understand is the different ways in which people behave in front of these guys.
Some people turn their face in another side, some people pretend not to know, other ones instead trying to help or feel sorry for them.
What I learnt is something different. These people don’t like to be judged in the same way that they hate to be pitied. They are people in the same way we are and so they just would like to be treated like persons and, in a Utopian world, like a normal persons.
Maybe it’s a bit complicated I know, sometimes it’s the same for me, but they have much to give us and we have much to learn from them. Their lives are more complicated than ours and they don’t need also that we complicate theirs even more.
“All men are created equal” - Thomas Jefferson
