I got this from riding the Access bus.A Servant for Christ,
Toby

Exceptional is defined by Merriam Webster as uncommon or rare which is a perfect definition for handicapped people. We are ALL exceptional in many ways. A common “normal” child is raised somewhat by their parents, but in many cases (more than we know) the time spent “rearing” a child is done by the child themselves. They can look around at others and decide for themselves what is common, and many times they do it and adults are proud of them.

Well, exceptional people are in many ways no different. The big difference is that exceptional people don’t see things in the same way as many do. Hence a further correspondence with the definition of exceptional which gets to the point of this document: why not totally change the definition from Handicapped to Exceptional? Handicapped just sounds extremely negative like a handicapped person is missing something, when in fact they are just uncommon or rare and if you can spend any time with them, you may find that although they may be different from what you’re used to, they’re beautiful people and worth your time.

Exceptional people have had (in many cases) to make use of a different part of their brain than most people do which further defines them as uncommon and rare. Now it may be not what you’re used to, but NOW who’s uncommon or rare?