Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century

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It would not be reasonable to expect him or her to give up, or modify, normal activities that might exacerbate the symptoms. In determining a question as to whether a person meets the definition of disability it is important to consider the things that a person cannot do, or can only do with difficulty. Impairment in a person’s body structure or function, or mental functioning; examples of impairments include loss of a limb, loss of vision or memory loss. You’ll still be disabled under the Equality Act if the effect of your impairment is likely to happen again in the next 12 months. Although they are unable to care for one another as able-bodied partners might, their shared experiences result in an extremely strong bond.

Introduction: Disability, In/Visibility, and Risk

The Disability Visibility Project works with StoryCorps to encourage and allow disabled people to record their own oral histories and to share their lived experiences of disability. In deciding whether a person has had a disability in the past, the question is whether a substantial adverse effect has in fact recurred. References to sections of the Act are marked ‘S’; references to schedules are marked ‘Sch’; and references to paragraphs in schedules are marked ‘Para’.See also paragraph C11, regarding medical or other treatment that permanently reduces or removes the effects of an impairment. Related to conditions that are present at birth and may affect functions later in life, including cognition (memory, learning, and understanding), mobility (moving around in the environment), vision, hearing, behavior, and other areas. In celebration of the Halloween season, we are sharing horror titles and books that are aligned with the themes of the holiday: the sometimes unknown and scary creatures, witches, and ghosts.

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The Act provides that where an impairment consists of a severe disfigurement, it is to be treated as having a substantial adverse effect on the person’s ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities. Now more than ever, our society desperately needs to listen to and take action on the changes disabled artists and activists have been demanding for so long.

This section should not be read in isolation but must be considered together with sections A, C and D. But see paragraphs A16 to A17 for details of some people who are treated as having had a past disability. It is one grounding stone on the path to true liberation and acceptance for human beings in all their glorious variations.