Why might invisible minority groups like gays and those with mental disabilities have more trouble getting sympathy than those who are visibly minorities such as blind people and handicapped people?

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Well over here in the UK, gays are regarded as an equal group after legislation banned calling them minorities.They get a lot of sympathy for still being perceived as such and in fact the government here has been criticised for "trying to hard" to please these people.Mentally disabled people might have problems though, as there will always be unsympathetic hard-hearted people who say " I can't see anything wrong with you, you must be okay ".It's this cold, unfeeling attitude that makes disabled people have such a hard time getting equal treatment.
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Yeah its all about peoples views and perceptions on things, along with there apparent abilities to be un-able to compromise of understand things if the wider population and public have already cast there own set views on that particular subject. Take me for example I fall into this invisable minority group because of who I am, people automaticaly think that I have killed my wife kim, and that I hate women and that I'm a homophobe, but really deep down I never killed my wife atall nor am I homophode I just like to call them faggots, and as for the wife well she was a pain in the a.ss anyway and she does still live all be it in the underworld but its a better quality of life for her than she had in the walking life because she is now with her own kind. In peoples minds those who are born with a disabilty is not there fault so they get sympathy, homosexuals or people who have lost there mind usualy get concidered to be self inflicted, hence the reason why people views and perceptions some what vary in the two examples mentioned above

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