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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Disability is often framed, in medical terms, as the ultimate disaster and certainly as a deficit.
There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.
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.
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.
For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.
It's not our disabilities, it's our abilities that count.
I'm definitely more understanding of people who have disabilities and who are suffering.
The world worries about disability more than disabled people do.
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.
A handicap is only if you let it be a handicap.
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