Disabilities

I have stereotyped people with physical disabilities in a group with people who have mental problems and people who are sick. The disabled, however, are not sick and are normal people. I have this stereotype because of the media and the news as well. I thought it was very interesting to see that people in wheelchairs get offended when others say they are wheelchair "bound" because that is not how they see it, just as a person of a different race or ethnicity gets offended when others call them somthing they do not believe themselves to be. This makes me a lot more aware of disabled people, how they feel, and the language i use to describe other types of people.