Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap - it is all in the mind.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Physics is a hobby of mine, as much as a person of limited intelligence can understand physics.
Physics is perceived as a lonesome, nerdy kind of enterprise that has very little to do with human feelings and the things that excite people day-to-day about each other. Yet physicists in their own working environment are very social creatures.
Most people don't have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics.
I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied.
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.
Disability simulation fails to capture the nuance and complexity of living in a disabled body. And it certainly fails to give a deep understanding of systemic discrimination and abuse faced by disabled people.
I don't see myself as disabled. There's nothing I can't do that able-bodied athletes can do.
For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.
Being unconscious is the ultimate disability.
The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field.