A question of abilities?

Question

Before i ask the question, i am searching the right anwser for abilities with disabilities and non disabilities.

In that note: i am looking for something for the "so-called" normal and "disabled". But i am not talking they can or they cant do, I am talking for both abilities.

The question is and i am talking for both able and unable people; are we worse of or aren't we worse of?

Answer 1

It all depends on how you chose to view the situation.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 2

everyone has things they have abilities in, normal represents what the adverage of what people do or are capable of doing, disabled refers to ones ability not being up to the normal, either due to physical, mental, or even motivation and application, though its most often used to refer to physical and mental and stands for a lack of a basic ability to do a certain thing or challenges in doing what others can normally do

it can be confusing! for instance, a person with no hands is considered disabled physically, and driving is a challenge for them, yet many do drive, with special equiped autos, so they are not driving disabled,,,, while you have others with two hands that never master driving, so they are driving disabled
the first person does not meet the "normal" physically, most adults have two hands, the second person does not meet the "normal" for activities or learned skills, most adults can drive
so i dont think its so simple as deciding if anyone is worse off or not, it totally depends on the person, everyone has some abilities and disabilities , many overcome their disabilities, and many others dont use their given abilities, though i do think when you are faced with the challenges of a disability, and recognize it and decide to overcome it, you focus in and develop overall more, and especially develop that which helps that specific disability

Answer 3

Our greatest potential lies within ourselves.

Sometimes people with disabilities are forced to discover these inner abilities by being restricted in their superficial life.

This book is about a treasure hunt... a hunt for the source of that inner potential. It's a free resource.. Look for "Gospel Enigma" at

Answer 4

I'm having a hard time following your question, but if I understand it this is my answer.

I heard an article on NPR radio a while back and they were talking to a blind man who was given sight. He never felt disabled by being blind... it simply was his life. When he got sight, he felt disabled and hated his new sight becasue it turned his life upside down. So his "normal" was what most of us would consider "disabled."


Is that what you were looking for?



g-day!

Answer 5

At the age of 15, my stepdaughter was told by the school that she had a disability, something we never told her.

She immediately set out to not do anything in life, her school work, her chores, taking baths, ECT. Every time we confronted her on it she would look at us like we were stupid and state...

I do have a disability.

Finally after dealing with her disabled attitude enough I nipped it in the bud and cracked her disabled world...

I told her, yup, you are so right! You do have a disability, it is a disability of the mind but there is a cure for it. Let me tell you how to cure it...

I was born with a disability called dyslexia and that was before there was a name for it and help, so I had to learn how to deal with it and become the over comer I am all by myself.

Than 10 years ago the Dr's told me I would NEVER work again. I was diagnosed with Double Crunch Syndrome (Carpel Tunnel Syndrome from the neck down - Called double crunch for that reason.), my employers made an example out of me and made sure it was un-fixable, as in forever, can’t be fixed, can't ever work again.

When you loose the ability to use your hands and arms, what do you have left?

I took matters into my own hands (Pun intended); I got rid of all the Dr's and refused to follow their advice. I was on a 5 pound lift restriction for the rest of my life and even told I could not gather the eggs from my chickens!

I started listening to my own body and re-teaching my hands to work, always switching tasks when needed, learning what my limits were and stopping when I had reached my limit. I went from a 5 pound lift to now 50 pounds (Before this happened I used to life 100 pounds.). I can do most things I set my mind to do as long as I listen to my body and what it tells me.

When I met and married your Dad he never believed I was disabled for the first 2 years we were together because he never saw my disability. I had decided that if I had to live this way for the rest of my life, I sure didn't want anyone to see it, not even your Dad. I live with constant pain every day of my life, yet no one sees it, not even your Dad. If you see me take an aspirin; that is your only clue to the fact that I am in extreme pain and I can't use my mind to block it out like I normally do. I have only done that 4 times in 10 years.

Do you know what having a disability means? It means that YOU have to work 10 times harder to accomplish the same task as the guy next to you. It is not an excuse to get out of anything; it is a reason to overcome where you are at so you can have a better life.

When the Dr's told me I'd never work again, I told them...

Sit back and watch me, I am too young to sit in a chair, collecting a disability check for the rest of my life and wait to die.

The next day I had another job and the beginning of my now career. I may have lost my hands and arms, but I never lost my mind and as long as I have that, I can still find a way to work and live life to the fullest.

I am sorry that you are disabled in your mind, but now you know there is a cure if you choose to accept it as easily as you choose to accept your disability.

Life is what you make it by the choices you make in your life.