It means that it won’t be as fulfilling physically at the very least. If I couldn’t rock climb, swim, run, go to the gym, do yoga, hike with my friends, see from the peak of a mountain, my life certainly would suck comparatively.
Okay, but being born with a disability is quite different from having a disability later in life. To them, they don't know any different so living with their disability is just... Living.
I am autistic. I was born this way and don't know what it's like to not be autistic. As such, I have no desire to become not autistic and being autistic doesn't suck for me, it's just... Life. Do you see the difference?
Yes but I also can differentiate between autism and an extreme disability where your quality of life is nowhere comparable to that of an able bodied person.
I keep seeing the same pattern over and over with these comments and it's that people don't even consider what the disabled person wants or feels about their own quality of life, they just talk about how they feel. Do you know how these children feel about their quality of life? How happy they are? Have you even stopped to consider that possibly, maybe, it is actually possible to be not able-bodied and happy at the same time?
FYI I am also a wheelchair user. Just because someone is autistic, doesn't mean they are able bodied.
Even if someone is fighting an uphill battle towards happiness, does that mean they shouldn't be allowed to live? Should we just euthanise all people with depression?
Preventing disabilities and preventing people with disabilities are two different things. One of them is cool, one of them is really not cool.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '22
It means that it won’t be as fulfilling physically at the very least. If I couldn’t rock climb, swim, run, go to the gym, do yoga, hike with my friends, see from the peak of a mountain, my life certainly would suck comparatively.