Scope, the charity that supports disabled people, recently reported that 90% of Britons have never had a disabled person in their house for a social occasion. A fascinating fact – not for what it says, but for what the number really shows underneath…
Most people with disabilities, unless they come with a wheelchair or a guide dog or some other physical manifestation, are not immediately obvious as disabled. Added to this is the fact that some people do not want to publicly “show off” their disability.
So really, how would most people know who they’ve had round for dinner?
When you appreciate this, you begin to understand the unhelpful tendency some people have to think that “to be truly disabled” you’ve got to have only one leg or carry a white stick.
You begin to understand why some people think disability is merely a marginal issue which only affects a very few people, and that Society has far bigger issues to address.
