Impairment,  whether  gradual  or  traumatic,  congenital  or adventitious,  can  have  an  influence  on  one's  own  view  of  the  world  and his  values.  Disability  has  its  impact  on  the  disabled  as  it  alienates  him from  people  around  him.  The  alienation  that  is  caused  by  an impairment  is  undifferentiated  from  the  one  that  happens  because  of other  situations  of  social  abuse.  There  is  a  relationship  between  the experience  of  living  with  an  impairment  and  the  disabled's  selfperceptions.  This  experience  helps  in  the  formation  of  the  disabled's identity.  This  identity  has  been  enforced  by  the  societal  prejudices  and the  personal  incapability.  These  conflicting  feelings  of  alienation  and loss  of  one's  own  identity  are  discussed  in  Lisa  Genova's  novel  Left Neglected  and  Jean  Dominique  Bauby's  disability  memoir  The  Diving Bell.  They  show  how  a  sudden  accident  causes  a  life-changing  collision and  how  high-  achieving  people  struggle  to  rebuild  themselves  and their  lives