Your opinion on the word: "disability"

Lau2046 said:
I don't get why people are offended by medical terms. I'm severely hearing impaired - with hearing aids, and I'm deaf without them. There's no negative connotation associated with words except what you give them - and yes, if you lost a significant amount of hearing, that's a disability. It's the same if someone lost a significant amount of sight - that too is a disability but you don't have to let it define you. If someone's in a wheel chair, that's not a disability to you if they can't get up from it? What would be then - a continual vegetative state in a hospital bed? I don't like being labeled by anyone including the deaf community and I'm not concerned if anyone agrees with my views or not...I'm not needy for approval...I just wish I could understand this obsession with labels.

Laura
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Totally Agree
 
I'm dead and I have been since I was born. Dead is NOT a disability Now I can't speak and THAT is a disability if u look up special needs dead is not under it look up disabled and dead is nowere to be found
 
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