Ableism is an attitude characterized by prejudice and discrimination targeting people with disabilities. Ableism is often associated with a desire to "cure" or "fix" the person's disability.
It is a problem of daily life for people with disabilities as well as nondisabled individuals.
Ableism may be overt or covert and makes the person with a disability appear inferior to people without selected disabilities.
Ableism occurs due to a lack of understanding of what the experience of disability is actually like.
Some religious people associate disability with a sinful condition or punishment for sin. This has been known as an example of a moral model of disability.
The medical model is common in western cultures. The medical model views the disability as a pathology that needs to be diagnosed and cured or treated.
A social model of disability places the problem within society where the problem is a lack of accommodation for people who are differently abled.
A reference
Bogart, K. R., & Dunn, D. S. (2019). Ableism Special Issue Introduction. Journal of Social Issues, 75(3), 650-664. https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12354
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