The Best Compliment Can be No Compliment at All for National Disability Awareness Month

When people give compliments to those people that have, or are living with someone that has a disability about what they do every day and how they think they are strong, you might not be giving a lot of advice or praise to those people. A lot of times these remarks mean well by the person saying them, but can be offensive to those receiving them. A lot of times, people will address the other person rather than the person with the disability when the disabled person is more than capable of answering it themselves.

So next time you come in contact with someone or a family that has a handicap or disabled person with them, and you want to say something either say nothing at all or choose to say something that you would normally say to someone without a disability. They are normal; just like everyone else they just do things a bit differently. Life can be tough for them, but it can be for those with other problems as well.