Food Nutrition and Safety
The Treatment of the Mentally Challenged
Around 50 million people in our country over the age of five have a disability. “Disability” refers to an individual’s capacity to function within a given social and environmental context . Because of the struggles of disabilities, those with them go through more unfair torture and criticism than the ‘normal’ human being. Treatment of those with disabilities has been known to be harsh and cruel. The aggressive unfairness toward the mentally ill and the advantage taken of them has not decreased through the years, but very well hidden from the innocent eye of the public.
To American people, those with mental illnesses seem to be treated much better than they have been known to be in the past. Though born the same way as those around them, the people with disabilities were not actually looked at as people. It used to be that they were looked at as some thing or an idea of a person. In the book Flowers for Algernon, the main character, Charlie was treated very poorly and unfairly. While he was young, kids would throw things at him while making fun of him, his own mother beat and tormented the poor boy until he was almost petrified of life itself, and growing up, those who worked with him at the bakery constantly made fun of every little thing he did. Because Charlie was mentally retarded, he did not know the way they treated him was terrible. He had a loving heart that accepted anyone into his life (Keyes, 1966). Today seems to have its short comings about the way people with these challenges have been treated, but comparatively, they now have more freedoms and treatments from others.
Although America is getting better, there are still some cases that are shocking and mortifying. You would think that a person who did not face the battles of having a disability would take pity and care for those who do, but some have proved us wrong. There have been reports even in schools of these terrifying events. This problem is
Around 50 million people in our country over the age of five have a disability. “Disability” refers to an individual’s capacity to function within a given social and environmental context . Because of the struggles of disabilities, those with them go through more unfair torture and criticism than the ‘normal’ human being. Treatment of those with disabilities has been known to be harsh and cruel. The aggressive unfairness toward the mentally ill and the advantage taken of them has not decreased through the years, but very well hidden from the innocent eye of the public.
To American people, those with mental illnesses seem to be treated much better than they have been known to be in the past. Though born the same way as those around them, the people with disabilities were not actually looked at as people. It used to be that they were looked at as some thing or an idea of a person. In the book Flowers for Algernon, the main character, Charlie was treated very poorly and unfairly. While he was young, kids would throw things at him while making fun of him, his own mother beat and tormented the poor boy until he was almost petrified of life itself, and growing up, those who worked with him at the bakery constantly made fun of every little thing he did. Because Charlie was mentally retarded, he did not know the way they treated him was terrible. He had a loving heart that accepted anyone into his life (Keyes, 1966). Today seems to have its short comings about the way people with these challenges have been treated, but comparatively, they now have more freedoms and treatments from others.
Although America is getting better, there are still some cases that are shocking and mortifying. You would think that a person who did not face the battles of having a disability would take pity and care for those who do, but some have proved us wrong. There have been reports even in schools of these terrifying events. This problem is