What was your first experience with a person with a disability? Is there any advice you could give to others from your experience?

The first time I saw a child with a disability was in my fifth grade. They brought a new kid in to the room and we all could see he was different from the way he acted and the way he talked. My first thoughts was what happend to him and why is he like that. I don't really remember teasing him but just more curious about what happenend to him. I knew I didn't like to be teased so I didn't tease him.

I dont remember the first time I experienced seeing a child with a disability. What I do remember is just going over to my cousin Christina's house all the time and she is handicapped in a wheelchair and I never did tease her because I always knew that she would but hurt by it. She always told me about how she cried in school when someone was teasing her and it made me feel bad also. I am used to being her.

I was working at St.Micheal Daycare 3-5, a year ago there was a little girl in a wheelchair and that was injured from a accident which left her with a disability. I watched all the other kids playing around her, and with her, normally. We did activities with her included her but she did have her own teacher to help her. I didn't know what to say or do but I just asked the other teachers what to do if I was needed. I didn't feel uncomfortable around her because I knew she was special. But otherwise I went to school with other kids with disabilities in Bismarck and I just knew it wasn't nice to bother them or anything I knew better.