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It is hard to pinpoint where this idea — that it is inherently bad to be disabled — originated, but in the West, examples go as far back as ancient Greece. The linking of virtue and beauty with “normality” appears in Plato’s account of Socrates’ dialogue with Crito, in which Socrates asserts that “the good life, the beautiful life and the just life are the same” and that life is not “worth living with a body that is corrupted and in bad condition.”
Opinion | Was This Ancient Taoist the First Philosopher of Disability? - The New York Times
Bryan W. Van Norden
Stop thinking so much about the “problem,” taking everyone else’s inventory—diagnosing and repairing the cause of your discontent. And instead, turn your focus to your own responses and attitude; attend to who you want to be in a world that will always be not entirely to your liking. Then you can create a good life without changing anyone or anything.
Can't Stop Thinking
Colier, Nancy
We tend to spend our whole lives looking for a way to fix the past so we can have permission to enter the present, only to find out that we didn’t need permission at all. The whole paradoxical catastrophe is tragically ridiculous.
Can't Stop Thinking
Colier, Nancy
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