Disability Article

I finished reading the article passed out in class today on Artists with Disabilities. This article was interesting and affected me personally because of having a disability myself, and also knowing and working with many people with disabilities. People do always wonder, "what happened to you?" when talking about a disability. I feel that this is not a good way or fair to the person with the disability. Just because someone has a disability, does not mean something is "wrong" with that person.
In the article it talked about people with disabilities as performing artists. The disabled body is on "view", this is the "performance". People are generally looking at that person's disability and not who they are as a person. I feel if someone who was disabled is a performer, people are looking at them differently than someone who is not disabled. If a physically handicapped person with a beautiful unique voice sat behind a curtain and performed their song, and then also performed the same song out in the open for people to see that they are disabled, I feel the audience would respond differently.
I feel times have changed and people with disabilities are not necessarily looked down upon anymore in society, but at one point in time, having a disability was a very negative thing. I feel that society now usually understands people do no choose to be disabled. :)