HOW TO ACHIEVE EQUALITY FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES-PWDs

The personal and private lives of the disabled should be treated equally worthy as anyone’s life; the disabled are entitled to full human rights. Sexual repression is one way of denying the disabled equal access and enjoyment of human rights. If we end social seclusion and the poverty that hits the disabled people, then we will have automatically helped to solve the issues revolving around their sexuality as well. When we talk about sex and love, we basically mean acceptance, this acceptance is both on a personal as well as being accepted by the significant others, and this will make life full and enjoyable to live.
Matters of sexuality can cause deep oppression and deep pain to any individual, we often find that many disability movements find it easy both to talk about and to come up with strategies of changing issues concerning housing, employment, education and others matters. But the same movements will not address issues relating to the exclusion from sexuality and also exclusion from reproduction.
Many people don’t acknowledge that sexuality is socially created, they even don’t accept that sexuality is historically variable and has turned to be deeply political and the trend is growing even further and even deeper. Some of us give a lot of attention to disability as a medical issue. They see it as individual as well. They even go to an extend of seeing disability as natural and inexorable. On the contrary, we need to understand that disability is the aspect where the social and economic and also structural aspects of the individual have been overcome. And these have nothing to with the deficit of the person’s body or even brain. In short, the society has disabled the persons living with disabilities more than how their disabilities have disabled them. If we started by dealing with the prejudiced attitudes, then we will be fighting a winning battle for inclusion of the disabled into the society.

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