Everything Proceeds As Usual

Disabled people, a category which is constructed by social concept, are on society’s fringe for a long time. Mentally disabled people as a species under the category of persons with disabilities, gain less attention from the society. According to China’s Disabled disability classification and grading provisions, people with disabilities are divided into visual disability, hearing disability, speech disability, physical disability, intellectual disability and psychic disability. However, intellectual disabilities suffer the most discrimination from society. Theory of eugenics, which began to prevail in the mid-19th century, laid the theoretical foundation for it. Put human beings in a single judgment named intelligence measure, by which build the rank order and classes of society, is the old trick of eugenics. As a start, diversity kinds of IQ tests came into existence. Intelligence became the key element to identify the human quality. Therefore, compare with other kinds of disabilities, intellectual disabilities had been marked by deeper indelible imprint bias, and seem farther away from society. In this connection, the article hopes to provide a way for the public to understand mentally disabled people and be familiar to their life, by presenting adult mentally disabled people’s life in Zhaoyang service center as well as the mental process of their teachers and parents. So that the distance between the society and mentally disabled people can be reduced.As the article describes, the mentally disabled people’s learning and living place is a closed environment, they are separated from the current society in spatial terms. This separation, on the one hand, makes mentally disabled people hard to adapt to society, one the other hand, helps to take the discrimination and pressure away, giving mentally disabled people an easy life. This kind of contradiction also exists in mentally disabled people’s hesitated heart. They yearn for ordinary person’s life, which includes get work and marriage. At the same time, they love the protected life in the separated space. However, Zhaoyang service center is not a place for students to stay for the life long, but a place where students can improve their ability and skills and then adapt to society in the final. Therefore, the daily teaching focuses on the improvement of students’ practical ability, communication skills and specialty development, which aims to get students ready to gain an ideal job and be adapt to the society. However, parents’ thinking are complex. They regard woking as suffering, which means they prefer their children do not get a job unless they can’t afford the family expenses. In addition, parents avoid their children’s appearances in public occasions to protect the self-respect. The opinion like this has prevented mentally disabled children from social adaption.As a conclusion, the article tells that mentally disabled people’s intellectual disability exists in reality, while the statement of inferior or useless are subjectivel constructions. Mentally disabled people are not the burden to families and society. Congenital defects can be remedied through training, which has proved to be successful. Mentally disabled people need not only basic necessities of life, but also emotions and respect. So, pay attention to their mind and listen to their real voices is an issue which parents and teachers should not ignore. For mentally disabled people, intellectual disability brings lack of action and ability, which makes parents be their agents. The parent-child relationship brings too much subjective feelings which becomes an obstacle in mentally disabled people’s way of social adaption. In a word, parents play an important role in promoting their children’s social adaption.