In the article, “Dear parents: Don’t just tell your kids not to ‘stare’ at mine” by Christina Cipriano supports Batson et al. claim, adopting the perspectives of an individual in a stigmatized group leads to increased empathetic feelings towards this individual. In the article the author talks about her son Miles who has visible disabilities and the struggles they have with parents telling their kids not to stare at hers. The author explains how when parents tell their kids to look away, they are taking away opportunities for their kids to learn since by them looking they are curious. By telling their kids to look away they are teaching them to neglect people that are different from them. The author then says that when parents lean into the staring and ask questions, their children are gaining a different perspective of something they are unable to experience for themselves. By allowing kids to be curious and ask questions rather than blocking them off from, they are demonstrating perspective taking which is what the claim Batson et al. talks about.

“The Dignity of Disabled Lives” by Andrew Soloman, expresses how the views of disabilities changed throughout the years. For a long time, there was an argument about the worth of the lives of those who are disabled and the parents of those children. This argues the worth of these people that our society has challenged, those these people are disabled does not mean they are any less of a human than anyone else. Our society as has gradually embraced the rights of many groups; women’s rights, then racial rights, then most recently gay rights. Thought the attitudes towards disability has been nearly as powerful there is not action being taken for fighting for their rights. Gradually taking action, there has been a bigger acknowledgement towards their inherent, access and social challenges, though there is still a lack of action being taken. “Disabled lives are as valid as nondisabled lives, but they are not the same.” (Soloman). Understanding that people that are disabled are just as equal as those that aren’t, yet disabled lives shouldn’t be looked at the same as non-disabled lives since they are not the same. Looking at the educational point of view, when kids nondisabled kids and disabled kids are learning in the classroom together, those kids are growing up less afraid of people who are different than them. As of now disabled people are more visible than ever. Social progress and medical progress are being made for these groups of people so they are being acknowledged to having an identity rather than becoming subject to a cure.