Handicapped or Disabled

The words sound much familiar, and in a layman language they are quiet often classified as synonyms but technically speaking from my point of view the two words carry a significance which is poles apart from each other. Disabled as the word says in itself may be termed as inability of an individual due to any physical or mental problems or diseases.

Talking in terms of disability it may be natural or may be caused due to an accident. Disability up to some extent is unavoidable and is not hands of an individual. Them main difference that lies between disability and handicapped is the attitude or approach of the affected person. In disability the case that is generally reffered is one's desire to perform a task but continuous failures in achieving that task due to his physical or mental standards, though the person has given his cent percent physical and mental dedication during his performance.

On the other hand handicapped may just be defined as a state of mind of an individual and his negative approach to perform a task just by giving the excuse of his disability or sometimes without the excuse. Just to  clarify my above mentioned points i would like to illustrate the article with two real life examples that I saw and which may properly describe the both states.

In my history class during school days i witnessed an incident when ink in the white board marker of the teacher finished. The very next thing she spoke to us was to arrange a marker as she was feeling handicapped without the marker and will not be able to explain us further until she has it. It clearly showed her negative approach describing her handicapped behavior as she could have at-least tried to explain the topic verbally without use of marker until it was arranged rather than sitting and killing time.

Talking about disability, in the annual techno-cultural festival of my college held last year, on the closing night a performance was given by a mentally disabled child on sikh martial arts in front of a massive crowd of 20,000. His words post performance were " I have really forgotten today that I am a disabled one. As of I have been told, every child is special and so am I".