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This research paper explores the theme of disability in Malini Chib's autobiography, 'One Little Finger'. The author explores personal feelings and experiences in the society and search into various ideologies in her autobiography. The study search into various societal perceptions and challenges, faced by many persons with disability in the stereotypical society. Malini Chib's autobiography captures coherently the feeling of alienation, isolation, innate desire for rejection and acceptance. The concept of 'marginalization' refers to the disabled people in which they treated as groups, discrimination, insignificantly in the society. After analyzing the emotional journey of Chib, we find the disability of cerebral palsy about her and other people who have various types of disabilities and make a challenge in social perceptions about this issue. This research paper contributes to the women empowerment and inclusion by the experiences of persons with disabilities. It highlights a paradigm in the social attitudes and challenges about persons with disability. After thorough study of Chib's narrative, we seek to foster empathy, understanding, the creation of inclusive society, values, positivity, ability and determination for goal of persons with disability. In the genre 'One Little Finger' Malini Chib critically portrays a profound insight into the experiences of persons with disabilities. Those who are disabled, various notions in our society about them. It explores the various types of disability and its impact on the persons with disabilities in the context of hierarchical society. It focuses on the life of individuals who have critically disabled persons; one of them is Malini Chib who has disabled woman, suffers from cerebral palsy, and her experiences of isolation, discrimination and marginalization. This paper examines challenges social perceptions of disability, struggles, and triumphs of the persons with disability. Chib's autobiography provides critically powerful images of society, cultural norms, ableism and stereotypical notions of society about disability. It highlights the ways of societal attitudes towards disability. It also portrays disability studies as a theoretical approach and analyses the ways of ongoing discourse of disability and social stigma.