Stigma and Disability

"Finally, stigma theory reminds us that the problems we confront are not disability, ethnicity, race, class homosexuality, or gender; they are instead the inequalities, negative attitudes, misrepresentations, and institutional practices that result from the process of stigmatization.( Thomson, 1997, p. 32)" 

I was reading Theorizing Disability, and this quote spoke to me, because the perception of mind creates the the inferior thinking against for both the people with the disability and others without the disability. I think that the imagined and idealized form of body within the group, in other words, society creates dangerous thought process and idea of normal; thus, it creates the stigma around the subject--in this case, body and the different body. 

I often see some note like--"adjustment to disability"at my internship site when a client is referred to the art therapy. Most of these clients were recently gone through the big changes in their lives. It is hard for them to see their body changes in a positive way because it is different from before. I respect/admire their efforts to make adjustments and courage to keep themselves up, because the difference sometimes means hard. However, I think this difference looking at this subject matter, 'disability' needs to take one step further to look at people with 'disability' on the same level. So they are not different but the same in the view of human existence; thus they are not inferior.