And without knowing, my text about meditation has provided one of the main reasons why this integration process is so difficult. As I said before, practical conditions even very qualified disabled people encounter at the workplace are still far from good. They often also suck in other dimensions of life. As I've mentioned, several of these barriers are invisible, because the environment creates an adverse selection of those capable of hiding their difficulties and differences. It does that by rewarding this conduct in the short term with partial integration opportunities (which obviously exclude the medically so-called more severe disability cases).
Don't get me wrong. Acknowledging this mechanism is key to find a solution to the problem (if one really wants to). Unfortunately, it's only the beginning, since the mere understanding of this reality won't bring its automatic solution. Even if all the people in charge of big corporations hiring and firing would read my texts and even if they would agree with all the claims I'm making here, change wouldn't magically happen because there are tacit truths about people with disabilities that carry along a huge and often invisible weight, as much as all the tons of air we have on us all the time. Which makes me end this series about integration in low key (sorry about that).
As much as I and all the other disabled people in the world desperately need change for leading a good life, there's too much history to be untold. All the human organizations (as well as the other biological systems) tend to resist change to keep their internal structure, despite of environmental stimuli. Which means, as for meditation, that social change, which is the true cure to disability, will demand time and lots of persistence.
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