PSY345H5 Lecture Notes - Disability Rights Movement, Orillia, Tetraplegia
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Exceptional better than normal they stand out since there are a very few of them (people in a pyramid with very few exceptional at the top) Most people are closer to the average and the father you go either way it gets narrower. A person with an iq of 145 is referred to as exceptional but not as not normal . Disability lack of an ability or people who have problems doing everyday things. Talking about the lower end in all areas. Social isolation - people with disabilities were isolated. People with disabilities were murdered at infancy because of fear, supernatural powers (thought that kids with disabilities were kids of satan), community thought the family was punished and in turn shunned the family with the kid ex. In nazi regime they killed many people with disabilities, race, gender etc. Thrown out of the society (saying they do not belong with everyone else) why: ex.