"Sometimes people are born with disabilities, but it's communities that handicap them."

"Sometime people are born with disabilities, but it's communities that handicap them." -Anonymous

I agree wholeheartedly with this quote. Leaders of the community often look through the eyes of the mentally and physically able. The disabled understand the problems they themselves face better than anyone else, yet looking at the community from their standpoint is rarely considered when making important decisions.
 When leaders of the community tailor the community to the people in it, they sometimes don't stop to think about anyone outside the mentally and physically able spectrum. This leaves the understood importance of making the community an equal place for everyone vanish. For example, people with disabilities have a hard time getting things like healthcare, and are often discriminated against.
  Another important thing to mention is society's expectations for disabled people. Far too often, people set the bar extremely low the second they hear someone is handicapped. What most people don't realize, is that even though they have disabilities, disabled people are still capable of many, many, things. We tend to count the things they cannot do before we count the list of things they can.
 In conclusion, disabled people are just as much of they community as able bodied and minded people are, and they should be given an equal chance to prove what they can do.