Quotes About Disability

Major depressive disorders can perniciously disable the patient in supposedly carrying out their normal functions. There are those who suffer the disabling effects in only a single episode. However, there are those whose have recurrent episodes.

The Dyslexia Research Centre is in Reading.

Disrespecting one's ethnicity or their religious preference, on and on and on, if they have a disability, is not anything that has to do with when we talk about democracy. Equality.

Indeed, through fundamental advances in bionics in this century, we will set the technological foundation for an enhanced human experience, and we will end disability.

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.

A man who loses his arms in an accident has a great struggle to adjust himself to the lack, but one born without arms sutlers only from people who find him strange. Having never had arms, he cannot miss them.

Maybe we have an exaggerated belief that we have to stay in bed just to get through the day or that we can't go out of the house and do things. Views like these lead readily to what is sometimes referred to as "illness behavior." We begin to build our psychological life around our preoccupations with our illness, injury, or disability, while the rest of our life is on hold and unfortunately atrophying along with the body.

Healing implies the possibility for us to relate differently to illness, disability, even death, as we learn to see with eyes of wholeness. Healing is coming to terms with things as they are.

Pain is Pain. Broken is Broken. FEAR is the Biggest Disability of all. And will PARALYZE you More Than Being in a Wheelchair.

Fear is a bigger disability than having no arms and no legs.

I wonder if it's rude for a deaf person to talk with food in their hands.

If you're cross-eyed and have dyslexia, can you see okay?

Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled.

People with [Chronic Fatigue] who kill themselves are the millenium's favorite type of disabled citizens-- those who will walk quietly among the healthy, then quietly dispose of themselves.

The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

In the United States, toddlers and preschoolers who might have a physical, sensory, cognitive, or emotional disability are guaranteed the right to a professional assessment and educational services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

Does advanced ability deserve the same investment of time, money, and attention as disability?

I think Peter Falk had one real eye and one glass eye, and having one eye was probably better for shooting pool than having two.

Social Security Disability Plans: This segment of Social Security is different from the more common retirement benefit payout. Two programs are available: Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI). Both programs have stringent eligibility requirements.

For example, your tenant in a wheelchair wants to widen the doorways, lower the bathroom and kitchen countertops, and perhaps install a ramp. The ADA pretty much says you must allow your tenant to make these changes at their expense, providing they return your unit to its original condition when they move out.

IMPAIRMENT: Lacking part or all of…or having a defective limb, organism or mechanism of the body DISABILITY: The disadvantage or restriction of activity caused by a contemporary social organization which takes no or little account of people who have physical [and/or cognitive/developmental/mental] impairments and thus excludes them from the mainstream of society. ~

Cripples are not the stuff of romance. Only Lord Byron, dragging his club foot, springs to mind as an exception to the rule, but such a failing in a man is regarded as interesting, even provocative, rather than disfiguring. Women must submit to a more exacting measure.

Nunca tendré un hijo, Galen. Keir no puede prometerme que no le pasaré mi discapacidad. -Jessamy

the disability rights movement is almost unified in opposing assisted suicide—precisely because disabled people know they are the prime targets of the death movement.