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Does anyone like me find the term (Disabled) inappropriate?
To many able bodied people being disabled means anyone carrying that 'tag' are unable to do anything normal.
OK. Maybe we can't do many things they do. Or would like to do, or even did do. But thinking we are unable to do anything doesn't fit, does it? There are the Paralympics. They achieve great things. Although most of us can't
Today with the virus, many comp!ain about not being able to do the normal things and suffer with metal health problems as a result. We hear things like, go for a walk, take some exercise go outside to help. But what if you simply can't do things like that?
Being disabled can mean struggling with menta! Issues daily.
For able bodied people the virus will end and normal times will return. For disabled people the struggle with all these issues will go on.
So does the term disabled fit?
Any ideas?
To many able bodied people being disabled means anyone carrying that 'tag' are unable to do anything normal.
OK. Maybe we can't do many things they do. Or would like to do, or even did do. But thinking we are unable to do anything doesn't fit, does it? There are the Paralympics. They achieve great things. Although most of us can't
Today with the virus, many comp!ain about not being able to do the normal things and suffer with metal health problems as a result. We hear things like, go for a walk, take some exercise go outside to help. But what if you simply can't do things like that?
Being disabled can mean struggling with menta! Issues daily.
For able bodied people the virus will end and normal times will return. For disabled people the struggle with all these issues will go on.
So does the term disabled fit?
Any ideas?
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I have been suffering with my "disabilities" since birth. I am Epileptic and although I have sight in one eye the other never taught itself to see so I am legally registered as Blind.
I have been labelled as "Visually Impaired" "Handicapped" "Educationally Sub Normal" (the term ESN was used before SEN or now SEND
Yes I do have problems that able bodied people do not have. As I was never "Abled in the first place how can I be DIS abled?
Perhaps the term "Other Abled" would be more descriptive.
I now suffer with Arthritis and due to medication I am losing bone mass, have Gastric Reflux and a Hernia.
I will never be able to drive and even walking is slow.
Yes I suppose I am Disabled but what else do we call it?
Words like handicapped, retarded, backward not used now but whatever name is used will always have negative connotations and be seen as derogatory....
But, as above, what do we say?
I apologise, it's late, I cant sleep.... lol
I just haven’t found out what those things are yet.
i refuse to be labelled by my abilities however, or lack of abilities, I am more than that as are we all.
I rather like the thought of being a superhero, after all we are special right! 😀
I also like the idea of having letters after your name.
I really think together we can find something to suit everyone's need and thought.
I remember the struggle I had inside with the thought of having my disabled parking bay painted outside my house. I knew that once there with the wheelchair emblem in the centre it would mark me out for all to see. Not that I was hiding my condition it was just the thought of it being 'Blazed' all over the place marked me as something different and someone to pity and feel sorry for.
Together we can surely find something a little better? 👍
Among other things I have Spinal Stenosis. Severe arthritis in both legs. My (lucky charm) lol in my right lung which brought about a cancer scare. Major surgery on an anurism, found during the cancer scare. A complete knee replacement. Which is the only part of my body that doesn't hurt 😊
Can't have SS. Thinking of the Nazis here.
I'm thinking Alan SASSY? Hmmm. Maybe?
Disability Gamechanger - 2019
We lean to drive for instance. That opens up and expands our world.
We enter into relationships. That can change who we are and determine what we will becoome.
We change were we live and the home we live in. Maybe to better ourselves.
We travel to expand our world and our outlook on live.
Some of us have children and by doing so hopefully leave our legacy.
Many people take these things for granted and find it 'Fairly' easy.
Becoming disabled can change the progression of these things.
So who am I?
Like everyone else. I am me and like everyone else I just get on with it. Maybe at times a little slower and harder than most, but still I am me and love life.
Just my thoughts on this Sunday evening.
Alan.