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During the mid to late 20th century people with disabilities where met with fear, stigma, and pity. Their opportunities for a full productive life where minimal at best and often emphasis was placed more on personal characterizes that could be enhanced so the attention was taken from their disability <ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Groomes & Linkowski|first=D. A. G., & D. C.|date=2007|title=Examining the structure of the revised acceptance disability scale|url=http://libproxy.boisestate.edu/login?url=https://search-.proquest-.com.libproxy.boisestate.edu/docview/236273029?accountid=9649|journal=Journal of Rehabilitation|volume=73|pages=3–9|via=proquest}}</ref> Linkowski developed the Acceptance of Disability Scale (ADS) during this time to help measure a person’s struggle to accept disability.<ref name=":0" /> He developed the ADS to reflect the value change process associated with the acceptance of loss theory.<ref name=":0" /> In contrast to later trends, the current trend shows great improvement in the quality of life for those with disabilities.<ref name=":0" /> Sociopolitical definitions of disability, the independent living movement, improved media and social messages, observation and consideration of situational and environmental barriers, passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 have all come together to help a person with disability define their acceptance of what living with a disability means.<ref name=":0" />

Bogdan and Taylor's (1993)<ref name=":0" /> acceptance of sociology, which states that a person need not be defined by personal characterizes alone, has become influential in helping persons with disabilities to refuse to accept exclusion from mainstream society.<ref name=":0" /> According to some disability scholar’s, disabilities are created by oppressive relations with society, this has been called the social creationist view of disability.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Vehmas|first=Simo|date=2004|title=Dimensions of Disability|url=|journal=Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics|volume=13 |issue=1|pages=34–40|via=}}</ref> In this view, it is important to grasp the difference between physical impairment and disability. In the article The Mountain written by Eli Clare, Michael Oliver defines impairment as lacking part of or all of a limb, or having a defective limb, organism or mechanism of the body and the societal construct of disability; Oliver defines disability as the disadvantage or restriction of activity caused by a contemporary social organization which takes no or little account of people who have physical (and/or cognitive/developmental/mental) impairments and thus excludes them from the mainstream of society.<ref>Eli Clare: The Mountain</ref> In society, language helps to construct reality, for instance, societies way of defining disability which implies that a disabled person lacks a certain ability, or possibility, that could contribute to her personal well-being and enable her to be a contributing member of society versus abilities and possibilities that are considered to be good and useful .<ref name=":1" /> Society needs to destruct the language that is used and build a new one that does not place those with disabilities in the “other” category.<ref name=":0" />