Why are people in pain and have fibromyalgia all excluded from the Paralympics?

verityc
verityc Community Member Posts: 56 Connected
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This isn't fair. They say that pain can't be measured but it can. It just bugs me that the Paralympics should be for all people who are disabled whether it's visible or not. It gives off the wrong message if it's just for amputees etc!

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  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 5,833 Championing
    edited August 2024

    Who's the etc?

    Are you really jealous of amputees??

    Which sport would you choose to compete in while you're in pain?

  • verityc
    verityc Community Member Posts: 56 Connected

    What I'm trying to say is that not all people with disabilities are visible that's all. And the paraolympics is only promoting people with visible ones

  • poppy123456
    poppy123456 Community Member Posts: 64,375 Championing

    It's not just amputees that compete, there's other disabilities too, such as vision impairment, Intellectual impairment, short stature and the list goes on..

    https://www.paralympic.org/classification#:~:text=The%2010%20Eligible%20I,length%20difference%2C%20hypertonia%2C%20ataxia%2C

  • verityc
    verityc Community Member Posts: 56 Connected

    All with visual disabilities

  • poppy123456
    poppy123456 Community Member Posts: 64,375 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/904203#Comment_904203

    That's not true either. Intellectual impairments aren't visible.

  • Albus_Alumni
    Albus_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 11,373 Championing

    There's many taking part in the paralympics who have hidden disabilities as others have said. Who knows, some of them may have fibro as well, but we just haven't asked? 😉

    Speaking of which, it's time for wheelchair basketball, hooray!

  • verityc
    verityc Community Member Posts: 56 Connected
    edited September 2024

    People with fibromyalgia are not eligible to compete in the Paralympics because fibromyalgia is not listed as an eligible impairment in the International Paralympic Committee's (IPC) International Standard for Eligible Impairments. Other ineligible impairments include chronic fatigue syndrome, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).  

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    The Paralympics are a chance for the world's top disabled athletes to compete against each other on an international stage. The Paralympics also help to demonstrate the range of disabilities, including visual impairments, amputees, and dwarfism.  

  • verityc
    verityc Community Member Posts: 56 Connected

    The above fibromyalgia etc they mentioned are invisible illnesses and this is my point.

  • Jimm_Alumni
    Jimm_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 5,686 Championing

    I think it is an interesting discussion though, as they do categorise people into certain groups based on many different criteria. I wonder if there's somewhere you can see all that criteria? (I don't have the time just now to actually see if it is publicly available)

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 5,833 Championing

    I read that deaf people can't compete in these games without a secondary qualifying condition.

  • egister
    egister Posts: 1,102 Pioneering

    Separate Paralympic Games are also discrimination. I think disabled people should compete at the same time as non-disabled people. Everyone pays taxes, right?

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 5,833 Championing

    Men and women at the same time too?

  • egister
    egister Posts: 1,102 Pioneering
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/905873#Comment_905873

    Within the general Olympic Games there must be competitions (men against men), (women against women), (disabled people against disabled people) and (LGBT against LGBT). And give everyone the same medals.

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