It's not surprising, that's a pretty common caricature used to paint disability acts. The base root of what you're remembering is probably a short story by Kurt Vonnegut - "Harrison Bergeron"[1] which talks about an extremist approach to something beyond equality - sameness, everyone is forced to be the same. Equality and sameness are not the same, people can be treated equally and yet still allowed to retain their independence and diversity.