[Osem]

Sadly, in life other people say, think and do all sorts of things we might find distasteful. When we're confronted with those who'd judge us unfairly or make unpleasant generalised comments on the disabled, welfare claimants etc. we put it down to their ignorance and try to educate them. By ignorance, I mean lack of knowledge about the facts as opposed to a lack of intelligence or simple ill-informed prejudice. We try hard not to take such comments personally and tend to give these people the benefit of the doubt. In each case we might be right or wrong to do this but we've found that refusing to take it personally (and reacting accordingly) whenever possible makes dealing with such comments/behaviour that much easier. You can't educate everyone and letting them get you down just makes life harder.