In an article titled 'HERS: "Disability"', author Nancy Mairs fights for the integration and recognition of disabled people in the media. Mairs discusses the hardships faced mentally when one is physically disabled and how to fix this. She states, "it will be a good bit easier psychologically if you are accustomed to seeing disability as a normal characteristic, one that complicates but does not ruin human existence," (para. 6). Mairs argues that, having a physical disability herself, she feels extremely underrepresented and wishes for those already affected by their diseases and those soon to join them to be aware that although it is a new lifestyle, they are still people. To make her point, Mairs proposes, "to depict disabled people in the