disability and old age stereotyping

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OLD AGE/DISABILITY
EVANS (1998), drawing on the works of Freud and other psychoanalysis, states:
“Disable people are seen as childish, dependant and underdeveloped and are regarding as ‘other’ and are punished by being excluded from ordinary life. Thus popular images and rhetoric of disabled people abound which comfort us with people who are imperfect, helpless, disgusting, shitty, dribbling – a threat to rigid ego boundaries.

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