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You’re a disabled person then. Sure, you’re temporarily disabled rather than permanently, but that doesn’t matter. One lens for looking at disability is that

• barbaric_melons 3y ago
  Right. Disability seems to convey a negative still, much like there's something missing and it's a bad thing. There is a study that said a majority of disabled people with invisible disabilities would never identify publicly as disabled. So I'm willing to bet most of those people don't take to the idea that having a disability is more of a social issue then anything else.
• malfist 3y ago
  Yes, for my first example, I am temporarily disabled in regards to my arm, but my hearing is just fine. Accessibility for subtitles still helps me. I think the classic example of accessibility being better for everyone is the ramps at crosswalks. They help people with wheel chairs, they let blind people know they're walking into a crosswalk. But they also give people more traction, or help people with strollers move around.