Of Mice and Men: Care/Treatment of the Disabled

"The term 'disabled person' means any person unable to ensure by himself or herself; wholly or partly, the necessities of a normal individual and/or social life, as a result of deficiency, either congenital or not, in his or her physical or mental capabilities" (Declaration 1). Six point two to seven point five million people of the population are diagnosed with mental retardation. Mentally disabled people act, think, and grow differently than normal people, which may …

…for the good and some for the bad, but mentally disabled people from now on will always be treated differently in some way. Every year the care and treatment for mentally disabled people gets better, but for now the mentally disabled people are still being treated differently than normal people. Hopefully soon it will be different and everyone will look upon every human being, whether normal or abnormal, as if they were all the same.