Please explain to me the whole point of the disabilities rights movement?

Yes.

"The Whole Point" as you term disabilities, cannot be explained in a few short comments. If you lived in Australia, it is not a disabilty rights movement, but an Act of Parliment. This is an Act that was put in place a few decades ago, and is hardly relevant in todays world. Going back, say 50 years ago, a disabled person had more freedom than our present time. That is, the people that were not in institutions, but cared for on home base. These people accessed the community facilities without any problems. however, as soon as the Act was put in place, all sorts of problems cropped up. eg. Some disabled people wanted high flying positions that they could not physically handle, with demands for a support person to aid them. This is just one aspect of the issues that come into play. Intellectually disabled people who where once in an institution, had their own medical and psychiatric services.However, when the institutions closed down, the disabled had to be seen by the community medical people. this sound good in theory, but it is far too complex for this approach to work successfully, as a support person needs to be paid for taking the disabled person to their doctor,leisure activities, workplace, workshop. The list goes on. Small wages are paid to care givers, due to welfare budget of the land. This is not my thoughs, but reality.

To ensure & allow people with disabilities to have SAFE ACCESS to public buildings, businesses & facilities, just like every other able-bodied person does! Click onto ADA (Americans with Disabilites Act) to learn more. Before it was started, many people in wheelchairs or with guide dogs were denied access & refused service just because they were "different" & the owners & managers thought that by allowing a disabled person into their business establishment that they would loose the revenue of customers who did not have visable disabilities. Most just did not want to spend the money to put in facilities to accomodate people with special needs. Since it is Federal Law, the local people can no longer get around making their establishments inaccessable to the handicapped or disabled person who has just as much money to spend as someone with a regular job & no impairments. The point was to make people realize that it was no longer acceptable to treat the disabled as second class or third class citizens by denying them access to a "regular" lifestyle. When you look around & imagine that you too could end up disabled, then some of those barriers & obstacles that are ignored by your City suddenly become a neon sign that screams WARNING...THIS STREET NOT SAFE FOR PASSAGE!!! Disabled people want to eat out at a nice restaurant like they did BEFORE they were disabled & the laws ensure that there will be at least ONE table that can be used to have a comfortable meal by them & the others that are accompanying them! The laws also ensures that the sidewalks will be maintained & have a clearence that a wheelchair can safely manuever on & that parking & curbs have a ramp n every corner for safe passage to & from a business without the use of a lift. This regulation also helps the EMT's if they need to assist someone in an emergency! There's so much more, but I just gave a few of some of the more important ones!

People have rights. When our country was created people meant men - white men. We had to change laws so that people of other races and were women had rights. These are called civil rights laws. People with disabilities needed civil rights too. So different laws were created to provide rights to people with disabilities to have equal access and opportunity to the same things people without disabilities have. One of the earlier disability rights laws was to allow people who do not know how to read to vote. A later one provided schools for children with disabilities. There was a time when no schools existed for children with disabilities. There were laws that prevented people with some disabilities from getting married. Most of them are gone - but not all of them. One of the latest laws to change was to assure everyone with disabilities has the right to vote privately and independently.

We do not have any rights. We are worse off than animals. I never let anyone bring me down,I always keep my head up and self esteem!

Simple... Have a heart and they are capable people. You need just some patience.