A self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true, by the very terms of the prophecy itself, due to positive feedback between belief and behavior
A disabled person reacting through prior experience of difficulty and expectation that he will be treated badly may trigger negative reactions/biases in others and fulfill stereotypes by aggressive, confrontational behavior, or defensiveness, initiating a cycle of misunderstanding and avoidance
A term used to refer to the fact that frequently things turn out just as one expected (or prophesied) that they would -- not necessarily because of one's prescience but because one behaved in a manner that optimized these very outcomes
false expectation or prediction of behavior that tends to come true because it leads people to act as if it already were true false expectation or prediction of behavior that tends to come true because it leads people to act as if it already were true