People tend to develop their personalities from the different things that they get to know and do in their lives, which may also have an impact from time to time. People develop their personalities at all ages and it is a constant shift for every individual throughout his / her life. People may develop strong personalities based on the approach that society creates around them.
For Persons with Disabilities, the following aspects may seem slightly different and many times difficult when compared to persons with out Disabilities:
Self Esteem
- To mould one's self esteem,
- develop confidence in oneself and life,
- acceptance of ones Disability,
- readiness to take support and creat support circles, as well as refuse support when not required
Self advocacy
- develop decision making skills,
- explore external guidance to support while making decisions for oneself,
- to have a will to break barriers and have a positive attitude towards life,
- willingness to learn more, explore life, take risks and also being thoughtful about one's safe guards.
The above may also vary to a great extent for persons who aquired Disability at a later stage of life may be in his/her teen age or middle age or even aquiring Disability due to old age.
In this page, we would like to invite comments from interested persons with and without Disabilities on their lived in experiences regarding the evolving personalities of persons with any/all impairments/Disabilities.
Thank you Arun for carrying
Thank you Arun for carrying the discussion forward. I think the assumption that persons with Disabilities have a different personality may be due to the attitudinal and environmental barriers prevailing in the society. In càse there is a real yet uniform variation exhibited by Persons with Disabilities in the tendency on evolving their personalities, it is definitely due to the aforesaid barriers. And personality cannot be generalised as it differs from Person to person, and so is with Persons with Disabilities. We can witness both strong and soft personalities among Persons with Disabilities, some introvert, some extrovert and some others possessing different styles of personalities. let's discuss more on this, with personal stories as well.
let's catch up live this
let's catch up live this evening to dialogue more on the topic.
An eye-opener of sorts.
An eye-opener of sorts.
Yes, PWD have slightly different personalities that need to be engaged and groomed, nurtured and cared for, while keeping in mind that this is a very sensitive issue and Smitha has outlined pretty well.
Good article, Smitha.
Continue your good works.