Why do people overpraise those with disabilites, etc.?

[Roflman]

I don't mean saying nice things about them, but for example the "Ugliest woman in the world" lady. If you don't agree that's she "beautiful", or "gorgeous", than you're an @sshole. Yeah, personally I don't find her to be attractive, actually physically a turn off, but clearly she has a great personality and is a good person. I guess that makes me a bad person?

Or like when someone with either a disability or some aspect that makes them different does something that gains attention (like singing), it's an "amazing song" and "deserves to be on the top 10 list" even though no one puts it on their ipod, and, quite frankly, doesn't sound that good.

But why is that? Do people say things like that on social media so they'll subconsciously make themselves feel better? Is it to try and appeal to others? I don't know, I feel like most of these people either are either lying and are aware of it or are lying to themselves. l admit I'm socially inept, so I don't understand these kinds of things.

It's not like I'm against those who are challenged doing what they love and following their dreams, but I can't lie to myself and say something is amazing when it isn't, even if the person who is doing it has autism or something.

[me]

Because they have it harder?...

[A Town]

Paragraph 1) the beauty is supposed to be the great personality/good person aspect. Yes, a lot of stupid people get this wrong... and relate the disability to be the beauty

2) yea, it's stupid people glorifying the wrong thing. if someone disabled sings great, it's a great song. if i sing great, it's great song. but if we both sing horrible, yet the disabled person is still considered great by some then that is a result of those peoples' weak sense of morality: their need to show others that they're not pieces of shit and to make them feel like they're not pieces of shit. Anyone with common sense and a sense of humor can see the other positive traits of these people without patronizing them.

I could work to be a famous singer my whole life and it'll probably never happen, but does that make life not worthwhile? Of fucking course not lol why treat those with disabilities any differently.
The guy on Workaholics would destroy a patronizing idiot lol. Wee-man is doing just fine. Stephen Hawking wasn't handed recognition. Rain man is happy.

So in conclusion, I'd say I pretty much agree with you

[691]

http://www.policymic.com/articles/7364/t...lt-complex
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.ph...te%20guilt

*white middle class guilt does not just apply to white or middle class people.

[20 Questions]

With that girl, you don't have to find her beautiful. And it doesn't make you a bad person to think she's unattractive. The point is really that she has an excellent outlook on life despite having it a lot harder than a lot of us. Most people rely on their looks. But she can't and, in fact, it works against her. Instead of being depressed, she is making the best of it.
As for others with disabilities, we try to build them up. On the one hand, they normally have to overcome a lot more than a normal person to get to a pretty basic level of doing anything. And doctors often don't put much hope in them, so when they manage to go above and beyond? Good for them. It's just one of the ways we show we are still human and we still care. Not everything is all bad or all about technology. Put yourself in their shoes--it may be hard, but try. If you had some sort of disability that caused you to, for instance, reach the intelligence of a 2 year old even in adulthood...wouldn't it be cool if you could sing or dance with out getting hurt? To walk well, talk to the point that others could understand you, hold a job of any sort...if you could reach ANY of those accomplishments as someone with a disability? That would be awesome! Next time you seem them...just try to be nice and think about it as if you were them and had to go through what they did. Good luck!

[Best Guesser]

I call it reverse prejudice.

Some call it Catholic guilt.

[Mark Mark]

Because most people are full of crap about everything and they will always prefer to tell a lie than to tell the truth. I don't see the lying about people with disabilities so much as I see people giving credit and praise to people who don't deserve it to fulfill some ulterior motives .Why do they play the worst songs over and over on the radio ?. How did any music from the eighties ever get played on the radio at all ?. Musicians were about dressing up like women and looking good in drag first and foremost and they spent maybe 2 minutes writing a lame song and maybe 8 hours a day putting on makeup and women's clothes .The bands all sucked in the eighties but people acted like it was so good . until the 90s blew their a s s e s away and they were not even allowed to touch instruments again for the good of humanity .Thank God.

[Bobby Day]

because they feel sorry for them,but there are those who don't