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CFS.
Thanks, I thought as much. Do you still suffer with it / has it got any better or worse?
Complete recovery.
Am I Disabled?
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Re: Am I Disabled?
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> Society and accommodation could make up for 90% of the downsides Why not 100%? For every downside you can come up with, can't you imagine some possible way for society to make up for it? Here's a simple one: calculate the value of whatever the disabled person is missing out on, and pay them a cash compensation.
How much are your legs worth to you? Really think about the question. How much would someone have to pay you for you to be happy for them to take them away from you? For me I can't put a number on that. I can't imagine any degree of compensation that would make me glad to make the exchange.
I can't put a number on that either. I could probably put numbers on very specific things I'd miss out on. But I'd never run out of those.
Re: Am I Disabled?
#243To me it's one of those "How heavy is a rock?" questions. In a particular instance, I think anyone can answer it about themselves. But in the abstract, it's a lot harder. Some people have issues with many or all things, and can easily answer 'yes'. Some people have no real issues and will easily answer 'no'. But there are a ton of people in the middle who have problems with certain situations and it's not an easy ans…
Everybody in the world can honestly answer yes they are disabled because of something. Yet the vast majority don't need special consideration to live their life. Even when someone does need special consideration what is important: Those bumps in the sidewalk that let a blind person know there is a road crossing ahead are critical to their safety - but they are very uncomfortable to someone in a wheelchair, sometimes…
Everyone doesn't have a legally defined disability.
The question is for statistics. It doesn't stop anyone explaining how to ask for accommodations.
Re: Am I Disabled?
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On this view, all the problems you mention are only problems because society doesn't give affected people enough support Sure, it's possible to reductio ad absurdum the "social model", just like nearly anything else. "Being in a coma isn't a problem! It just makes you different. The problem is society's refusal to cater to the workplace needs of people in a vegetative coma state!" All the social model aims to do is t…
> All the social model aims to do is think about a separation of the impairment itself and the ways in which society may make it worse. The aim is merely a change in thinking? I'm pretty sure one aim is to get more resources to support disabled (or impaired) people. And that's fine. We live in a society. What's not fine is the rhetorical trickery (motivated redefinitions of words) deployed as part of the SM.
It's a bleak, paranoid take to feel that people are attempting "trickery" when raising issues like these.
It is not a redefinition of the word "disabled" -- it is a reexamination of what actually leads to a person being "disabled."
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My wife appears to be incredibly fit and she is. She's able bodied, thin but not sickly so and strong. She has great muscle definition. Her skin looks healthy. She is often taken for being a decade or more younger than she actually is. She spends half her week pleading with medical staff or arguing with insurance about why the drugs and procedures shouldn't be denied. Her eyesight is rapidly degenerating. She's has d…
The bone problems are caused by nutrient deficiencies and inflammation from the digestive issues, correct?
Not as far as anyone can tell. Everything in her bloodwork comes back perfect. She eats well balanced meals, stays as fit as the pain will let her, doesn't drink much, no drugs that aren't prescriptions because of all this. By all measurements, she's in peak health... you know, except for the debilitating pain, bone fusion, rapid onset arthritis and degenerating vision.