Disability is often framed, in medical terms, as the ultimate disaster and certainly as a deficit.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.
These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than 'able-bodied' folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow.
I'm definitely more understanding of people who have disabilities and who are suffering.
Without being overtly political about it, if people with severe disabilities are calculated in societal terms purely as a monetised unit, in terms of how much they cost in terms of care, you lose an important sense of who they are and the effect they have.
Being unconscious is the ultimate disability.
Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.
Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.
Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability - the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy - to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined.
Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.
The world worries about disability more than disabled people do.
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