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Disability is Ability

by Gyanvitaranam

   Just the other day, I was crossing the road to catch the mini bus when I saw some beggars sitting outside the famous sweet shop , “Palawan’s” at my home town Jammu. The vision was a bit disturbing and they were the people who were disabled with different qualities. Seeing them strug gle for survival disturbed me.

   I say this because I too relate with a disease called “Dyslexia” – a learning disorder which I suffered during my school days. But this disease did not stop me from doing anything hard.

    A friend of mine suffers from Macrocephaly due to hydrocephalus in brain. During her adolescent age she was treated as a very delicate child. But these things hurt her within and made her fight to live a normal life.

    Now she is working with an IT company in Bangalore. To people who didn’t know her well, she looked like any other person out there - a....

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