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Re: Symbols can change society

It is interesting how something as simple as how a disabled sign is portrayed can change how individuals in society perceives a certain population and their abilities. I found an article that starts to look at this: http://adiamondinsunlight.wordpress.com/2007/09/08/enabling-the-disabled/ What are your thoughts?
One of these days I would like to be able to walk down the hall without getting awkward sideways glances from people. I know that they are just jealous, they don't need to stare :) In a world where we (try to) embrace diversity, why is it so hard to be different? The sad thing is that I think I would probably stare too, judgements are innate in us from society, how sad. Yet is it right for me to judge? It is not the judgements that are always the problem as they are part of our innate learned behavior that we learn from society. What is bad is when people make judgements that are unfair or unwarranted. Or worse they act on these judgements in an unjustified way.