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#55779. the_shaman
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What is the difference between being disabled and being handicapped?
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kaylofgorons
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Politics? As in political correctness?
Mar 08 05, 4:07 PM
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Flynn_17
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Disabled - you can't do it
Handicapped - it is harder for you to do something
Mar 08 05, 4:28 PM
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peasypod
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Disabled-Impaired, as in physical functioning.
Handicapped-Having a physical or mental disability that substantially limits activity.
Much of a muchness really. As for PC, these things change so frequently it's hard to keep up.
Mar 08 05, 4:28 PM
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Flynn_17
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It's 'inabled' now.
Mar 08 05, 4:36 PM
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Baloo55th
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Handicapped implies an innate condition, one you are born with. Disabled implies something has happened to you. Differently abled is a term possibly still PC that annoys me greatly - and would annoy me even more if I happened to become disabled. Inabled is just ridiculous. Unabled would be more correct, but neither are 'better' or 'worse' than 'disabled' anyway.
Mar 08 05, 6:33 PM
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peasypod
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Wasn't it once; insert appropriate word here 'challenged'?
Mar 08 05, 6:42 PM
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kaylofgorons
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Ah, the ever changing demands of political correctness.
The parking spots they all want to use are always called handicapped parking with a bold wheelchair symbol, whether they use a wheelchair or not.
(By the way, do you know how guys are like parking spaces?)
Mar 08 05, 7:16 PM
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satguru
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I've never heard inabled before, and it makes me cringe as much as netspeak to see new words being invented just like the Victorians who had to euphemise everything connected with the human body.
As for 'differently', then that would mean bodybuilders were also differently abled as they could lift much heavier weights, and geniuses for being brighter than 99% of humanity. Interestingly, I've read that most of the people previously referred to by these two terms weren't the ones that objected to them, but politicians and other behind-the-scenes policy makers. There is a vociferous minority who do call for different words for their conditions, but most with the same ones are not particularly concerned, from what I've heard.
Mar 08 05, 8:17 PM
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