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I think that people's perceptions of what it means to feel disabled are so different that your view is wrong. For instance, my mother totally lost the use of on
by lazyasciiart 6y ago
I think that people's perceptions of what it means to feel disabled are so different that your view is wrong. For instance, my mother totally lost the use of one leg as a baby with polio. She has always worn a full supportive brace on that leg from foot to hip so she can stand up and walk (she's never been able to run). She has always said she doesn't "feel disabled", but she checks yes on forms like this because she knows that this is the terminology used to cover things like "I may need extra help evacuating the office in a fire".
- faeyanpiraat 6y agoThe difference between the OP's and your mother's situation is that OP got injured after becoming an adult. The real difference is that OP could could determine if his current state is a regression from normal. Your mother's abilities degraded before she could understand what she misses out on. So being disabled is the norm for her, she does not feel disabled, but when filling out official forms, she has to compare her abilities with her perception of "normal". So it's not that OP is wrong, he is just in a different situation, they are both right.
- lazyasciiart 6y agoThe OP is free to feel how he wants. However, his suggestion that other people should self-assess the same way he does was wrong.