​Let’s pull this apart for a second…

Most individuals find out they have the label of disabled in school, or at least their parents do. You see until then they are just children. Just little balls of love and energy that have complete focus on navigating their world.
Once that label is applied the joy and wonder of the attention the child receives totally changes. Life is no longer about growing big and strong. Life is all about fixing. Fixing their ability to read (dyslexia), their ability to sit still and listen (ADHD), their ability to learn the lesson the first time it is taught (intellectual disability) or their ability to interact via social norms (autism).
Who set the standard for that expectation??? The education system. Who benefits from everyone being on the same level academically? The education system. Who needs everyone to act and feel the same? The education system. Do you see where this is going? Why does a system get to decide that there is something wrong with someone? The schools need compliance and uniformity for success, their success.
The world has changed but our education system isn’t changing with it. We have to stop teaching people there is something wrong with them because they don’t see and interact with the world the same way as everyone else. The first step to this is to quit telling (teaching) our littles that there is something wrong with them and applying a label. It starts by ditching the labels and embracing the person.
This isn’t just about the school systems that is just an example. Schools are filled with compassionate and caring individuals that really want to make this world a better place. Schools are filled with people that want to teach. This is about everyone, everywhere and what their opinions and actions are teaching others.
​Quite simply we have got to quit teaching people that there is something wrong with them because they don’t’ think, act and see the same way we do. People are not broken but our handling of people is. This is a fixable problem.