ABOUT ABLEISM

It is widely documented that people with disabilities experience ableism. To define, according to Linton (1998), ableism includes ‘overt discrimination against people with disabilities’ and it is also the ‘notion’ where people with disabilities ‘are inferior to non-disabled people’ which exhibits ‘character flaw’. The act of ableism, similar and analogous to racism, is also found in many forms, which according to Olson (2019), includes ‘lack of disability rights laws’, the implementation of ‘seclusion or restraint’ among students with disabilities, and the stigma in the community where ‘people with disabilities  want or need to be fixed’. More common causes of ableism that we all may observe are the absence of disabled-friendly public facilities such as buildings with no braille signs, tactile paving, nor wheelchair-friendly chairs. These instances, which abled-body people take for granted, surely limits the opportunity for people with disabilities to access offices, educational institutions, homes, public transport, and so on. In consequence, this will lead to them being unable to access such basic human rights (i.e a person who uses a wheelchair cannot attend a school which does not accommodate the access for wheelchaired students, thus this person cannot pursue education and his or her prospects may be limited).