 What one misconception about individuals with disabilities would you like to clarify? Karen Perry. Their disabilities may be seen or unseen. Man with cane to his right, Ken Shapiro. While some types of disabilities are more apparent than others, all disabilities are invisible. And that assistive device does not tell the whole story or define who a person is. Also, some disabilities don't have a visible indicator at all. Man in wheelchair speaking, Bud Buzzel. People don't know on the streets how you basically get around. And the things that you do, like I volunteer and they say, you get around like that, I say, yeah. Jessica Russell. People with disabilities are often times viewed as inspirational when we're actually just trying to go about our daily lives. And to call us inspirational can sometimes be patronizing. Man in wheelchair speaking, Derek O'Brien. I live with a traumatic brain injury. Yes, I'm in a wheelchair. It's obvious. But the biggest struggle I deal with day-to-day is my traumatic brain injury. It's a disability that you can't see and if people don't know about it, it's hard for them to understand and see the disability. John Lemieux. I think the assumption is often made that disability keeps people from doing things. The truth is that we can do most things. We're just going to do them differently. And I think helping to understand how things get done, the fact that they can be done but will be done differently, it's going to allow us to shift the paradigm. James Devine. The misconception that is first and foremost is that people with disabilities are totally helpless. That they don't have any personal resources, which is not true. They have a lot of resources. As long as they get the appropriate assistance, they can make do with what they've got. Helly pass. One misconception that people might have that individuals with disabilities can't do things by themselves. Yes, we're different, but we're just the same as everyone else, all wanting the same thing. And that is to be accepted for who they are. Woman speaking American Sign Language. Lisette Belanger. Most people misunderstand the term disability really unrelated to hearing loss, because I call myself a deaf person. Some people will try to be polite and say that I am hearing impaired. That term is offensive to the deaf community. We would prefer just to be called deaf. Sometimes people who are hard of hearing are fine with the term hard of hearing. Everyone has different preferences. But we prefer to call ourselves deaf because deaf involves a culture, a language. I am a deaf person.