Self acceptance can be challenging. Learning to appreciate one-self with all the idiosyncrasies a person may have can be difficult and rewarding. Taking the aforementioned into consideration, analyze how the concept of self-acceptance is vital to the development, progress, and identity of an individual. Use support in the form of objective analysis and examples that do not focus on the texts, and textual support from: "On Being a Cripple", "We're All Someone's Freak", and/or "Single Handed Cooking