A DEFICIÊNCIA INTELECTUAL: HISTÓRIA E ESTIGMATIZAÇÃO IMPOSTA AS PESSOAS AO LONGO DOS TEMPOS

Abstract

The history of people with disabilities have undergone some changes in stigmas over time, the reasons were as different as possible, this due to the lack of knowledge of the cause and the prejudice to the different, in this way this condition lasted for several decades. The subjects who were affected by intellectual disability went through a process of several changes resulting from the lack of knowledge of what limitations were entailed in the lives of those who were diagnosed as having intellectual disability. The present study presents the history and stigmatization imposed on people with intellectual disabilities over time, describing as an objective of investigation the analysis of the stigmatization that people with intellectual disabilities went through during long periods of history. And so looking for possibilities of cause for cooling down to all those who were affected by this disability, providing information and knowledge in proportion to the extinction of any type of hates the lives of those with disabilities. The methodology used was the bibliographic research that scrutinized a theoretical basis in the history of the course of this cause through descriptions of the entire process from birth to the development of these subjects throughout their existence. Therefore, when describing prejudices experienced by those with intellectual disabilities, it is possible to describe some advances in this struggle during the present day with regard to better acceptance and a quality of life consistent with all others who do not have the disability, and thus being able to current and concrete concepts should be used that these people have limitations and not impediments to enjoy everything they come to want. Therefore, the study concludes that through laws, decrees and changes in customs and the implementation of some public policies, these people have been demonstrating their potential and thus guaranteeing their spaces that for many years were extinct by a large portion of the population simply because of prejudice and lack of knowledge. In such a way, it will be possible that through science and future studies it will be possible to totally eliminate any type of ignominious stigma to all those who have intellectual disabilities in any part of the planet, thus enabling them to live in an egalitarian way to any subject without any limitation.