As Disability Awareness Month comes to a close, one USC student voices his thoughts on “The Utopian Vision” that we should all be striving for When it comes to different labeled individuals.

Why Tim’s friendship feels like the first authentic friendship I have had with a non-disabled person.

Imagine you’re sitting at the end of class and everybody around you is packing up. But you don’t have the ability to put your computer away, and your assistant is out sick. For most people, that wouldn’t be an issue. But that situation causes a major problem in my life, because I have a physical disability called cerebral palsy (CP) and am confined to a wheelchair, which affects my ability to do physical tasks.

Universities in Japan lack adequate resources for people with physical disabilities.