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Experience is everything. |
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Obviously, the best input would be from people who had experience either/or.
But even then, I would imagine the views would not be the same. There are too many variables as to
the effects of disability and the circumstances which promote or hinder coping with those
disablities.
Personally, I feel exceedingly fortunate to have lived a life free from disability and am currently
reduced to slug status because of chronic back pain. I am very glad that I have not lived my entire
life hindered by such pain.
Then again, had I been forced to do so, I'm not sure I would trade that life experience but knowing
the things I've been able to experience, I have to vote on this side. |
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This is difficult to speculate on because, without having experienced such a situation, it's not
easy to place one's self in that position and think about it with any knowledge of what it would be
like to live with a serious disability. I'm assuming the disability would be of a more serious
nature because, as we age, we all get aches and pains or other conditions that are health related
and can change how we live our lives, but not too many people view the aging process as gaining
disabilities. I would imagine someone who is born with a disability has learned to adapt and, by
the time they reach a certain maturity level, can emotionally cope with having some form of physical
disability. There are such extremes in this, but aside from someone who is completely unable to
function on their own, many people with physical disabilities are remarkable people who have fought
very hard not only to care for themselves, but to go on and pursue an education, a career, raise a
family, participate in some form of physical activities and many other things that would be a
challenge for some people who are free of any disability.
I think many people would react in the manner that the gentleman in the wheelchair waiting for a
miracle is. Too many people focus on the negative that comes their way in life. They seem to
become bitter and unable to move forward. Those who accept things the way they are and do all they
can to live in the present with their eye on the future are the ones who would probably adapt
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I suppose it's all in how you look at it. Marginally better in some ways than others by way of of
comparison, but not others.
Speaking as someone who has mild cereberal palsy, hydracephalus. And attetion deficit disorder,
alongside having a left index finger that was turned into a thumb to compensate for having no bone
in my natural thumb I can tell you that it is no walk in the park, but after coming up on 27 years
I can definately say that I am definately more acclimated to my disabilities having been born with
them than I would be if I were to have become disabled later on. |
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I will actually disagree with my own statement. The reason I ask is because I work with a guy who
had a car crash and now has an Acquired Brain Injury. He finds it near impossible to be happy in
any way and his thoughts are entirely taken up with the thought of walking again. To him there is
no life without walking. It is extremely unlikely he will ever achieve this without a frame.
I know others who are wheelchair bound but have a very fulfilling life. Walking isn't everything (I
am aware that this is easy for an able bodied man to say).
I am encouraging him to discover a life (the accident was 10 years ago when he was 19) anyway,
regardless if in another 10 years he manages to walk, and used others as examples of what could be
achieved with he right outlook on life. He points to the fact that if he was born with his
disability (like most of those that I used as a positive example) he would find it much easier but
as he lost his old life he doesn't want another and might as well just sit, miserable waiting for a
miracle. I can see his point in so far as the debate topic (not the sitting waiting bit) but am
interested in what others think.
For the record a brain injury is far more than being unable to walk and though he doesn't recognise
it the walking part is a fraction of the problem. But this is not the basis of the debate at hand.
He also has ataxia - look it up - I am too lazy to explain.
You could easily substitute the disability to blindness for the sake of the argument. |
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03 Oct 2009 19:42
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