Disability & Normalcy
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Look up one successful person with a disability, and explain how the notion of normalcy could have been harmful in their lives?
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The solution discusses the success of Ray Charles & Stevie Wonder as artists with full disability and how they worked to live a full life in 'normalcy.'
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Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder both were blind. With such a difficult disability, one would have considered their talents as secondary. Normalcy would have been, for them, a life of sitting in an institution or a family home, being expected to do nothing. They would have been sent to school to learn to read Braille. They would have had limited opportunities to be in public, though they would possibly have been assigned a seeing eye dog and taught to use a cane.
Fortunately, both had talents that were recognized and ...
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