Following Your Dreams Despite Challenges

As of 2012, over 38.4 million Americans, were living with a disability, according to the Annual Disability Statistics Compendium. The discrimination towards individuals with disabilities still continues to negatively affect the opportunities and lives of people with disabilities. Treating disabled individuals differently can give them a negative attitude towards others and life itself.

It is important that we try to understand how disability discrimination is affecting other individual’s lives in a negative way. No one should be excluded from activities because they have a “disability.” Anastasia Martynova is proof that nothing should stop someone from reaching their goals in life.