Why International Day of Persons with Disabilities – Always Together

Do you know what is the main cause of discrimination that exists around people with disabilities? Ignorance.

Why a day for handicap?

To ask the states to take the appropriate measures and thus eliminate all obstacles to integration.

The World Health Organization and the World Bank report that more than one billion people around the world live with some type of disability. As a result, these are the people who participate the least in the economy and are at greatest risk of poverty, due to the lack of employment opportunities, education, health services and decent wages.

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For this reason, the United Nations General Assembly declared December 3 to be the International Day of Persons with Disabilities in 1992, with the aim of promoting their rights and well-being in all areas of society.

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Let the difference be the value and not the stigma …

In our daily life we ​​use words like “normal”, “abnormal”, “different”, “weird” which are purely social constructs. This means that they were created by the society itself, then naturalized and finally accepted.

Human diversity would it not be normal and abnormal not to accept it?

Often times, socially imposed models are the reasons why it is difficult for us to embrace diversity, and we view what is different as a bad thing. We are all equally different and that is the most precious thing.

The Danish Hans Christian Andersen, author of “Ugly Duckling” (1843), almost without realizing it in the midst of his personal catharsis, leaves us this great reflection on the rejection of what is different. This parody of self-esteem shows that we all seek to be accepted and loved with our differences, the important thing is the dignity with which we assume who we are and that the environment offers us the possibilities to develop our qualities.

Ducks or swans? Different plumage, but the same rights.

Thanks to everyone who joined!

Enzo Chaile (Asperger’s syndrome), Joaquín Casanova (Down syndrome), Franco Santander (attention deficit), Lucia Flores (Down syndrome), Agustina Bracamonte (Down syndrome), Lucia Damasso (Down syndrome) , Nicolás Reinaga (Asperger’s Disorder), Antonio Sabatino (Down syndrome), Octavio Perez Gaudio (mild mental retardation, partial cortical blindness), Máximo Scontrini (bilateral deafness), Luis Moyano (cerebral palsy), Iván Blázquez ( Down), Martina Sabagh (neural delay with speech diffusion), Joaquín Cimarosti, Alma Cabanillas Irós (Down syndrome), Ignacio Mariño (generalized developmental disorder), Gabriela Amaya (Down syndrome), Juan Quevedo (Down syndrome) ), Sol Cimarosti, David Busto 26 (Down syndrome), Gonzalo Amuchastegui (autism and Leigh syndrome).