a discriminatory attitude and belief system that assumes that people without disabilities are the norm and standard, and people with disabilities are “inferior”, “defective” or in need of correction. Ableism can manifest itself both in an explicit form (for example, in the refusal to employ people with disabilities) and in a hidden form (through architectural inaccessibility, paternalism, derogatory language, and exclusion from social processes). In a psychological context, ableism can be both external (from others) and internalized (self-stigmatization).