Comments on: What do I mean by "just another disability"? http://transabled.org/thoughts/what-do-you-mean-by-just-another-disability.htm Talking about Body Integrity Identity Disorder - Just another disability! Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:50:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Annabelle Tsuki http://transabled.org/thoughts/what-do-you-mean-by-just-another-disability.htm/comment-page-1#comment-22025 Annabelle Tsuki Mon, 02 May 2011 01:31:41 +0000 http://transabled.org/thoughts/what-do-you-mean-by-just-another-disability.htm#comment-22025 To me, disability has always meant having a condition, no matter what it be, that stops you from participating in something that most other people can do. I've never actually seen such a different between the words impairement and disabled. Of course, I've never looked up the medical schematics of such words either. But to me, in my way of thinking, mental illnesses are disabilities as well. Mental ilnesses stop certain people from participating in certain things. Therefore, disability. To me, disability has always meant having a condition, no matter what it be, that stops you from participating in something that most other people can do. I’ve never actually seen such a different between the words impairement and disabled. Of course, I’ve never looked up the medical schematics of such words either.

But to me, in my way of thinking, mental illnesses are disabilities as well. Mental ilnesses stop certain people from participating in certain things. Therefore, disability.

]]> By: David K. http://transabled.org/thoughts/what-do-you-mean-by-just-another-disability.htm/comment-page-1#comment-21538 David K. Sun, 19 Dec 2010 15:36:05 +0000 http://transabled.org/thoughts/what-do-you-mean-by-just-another-disability.htm#comment-21538 I'd go as far as saying that a mental condition, illness, impairment, or disability (whichever term you like best), can actually be more disabling. In regards to the barriers society at large puts up. With physical impairments, those barriers are being removed, and more accepted, albeit slowly and yet an near infinite amount faster than what is being done with the mental impairment. I’d go as far as saying that a mental condition, illness, impairment, or disability (whichever term you like best), can actually be more disabling.

In regards to the barriers society at large puts up.

With physical impairments, those barriers are being removed, and more accepted, albeit slowly and yet an near infinite amount faster than what is being done with the mental impairment.

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