The following is a speech given by actress Aimée Mullins at a college commencement. She discusses her experiences with sports as an individual with a disability. She brings forth an interesting idea of how society views athletes with disabilities competing, simply as means of inspiration, and how this leads athletes with disabilities themselves to sometimes form a similar ignorant ideal on disabled sports.
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Accessibility on Campus: A Social Experiment at UMich
Four able-bodied students had an eye-opening experience earlier this year after undertaking a project to explore how accessible – or inaccessible – campus can be for people with physical disabilities.