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My favourite example to illustrate this is the story of Louis Braille. He invented Braille because the tactile reading system taught to blind pupils was horribly slow and inefficient. Once he invested his 6-dot reading system, he had to teach it to fellow blind people in secret, because the institution he worked for condemned what the blind have apparently come up with. Yes, because the "experts" on teaching blind people were not even willing to consider anything these people were coming up with, because, apparently, this is a danger to the institutions wanting to claim expertness.

These stories happen all over the place, and still repeat themselves when it comes to how disabled poeple are treated in institutions today.

Still, some conservatives are still willing to wink anything through a self-proclaimed expert utters to the masses.