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Tearing off the label ‘Disabled’

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28 December, 2019, 04:40 pm
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Tearing off the label ‘Disabled’

TBS Report
28 December, 2019, 04:40 pm
Last modified: 05 February, 2020, 04:41 pm

Shihab Shahriar, 27, from Dhaka, may seem like a man of few words at first. Even when he has to talks to others, he speaks in the third person. Any change in normal routine, whether it is unusual weather or a new person he meets, makes him uncomfortable.

The typical society intends to consider him an anomaly because of this weakness in socialisation.

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