Disability Can you climb Everest. No? So your disabled then, right?

We've heard this phrase many times, It's all relative. Indeed it is. When someone says you are disabled, you have to ask the questions - In what context? Relative to who? Who says so? If there is something that you can do that I can't do, then I am disabled, relative to you. If there is something that I can do which you can't do then you are disabled relative to me. So, depending on the context, every single one of us can claim to be disabled. Disabled people. We have to remember, there are the visible disablements and the invisible ones, but that our disabilities tally is a given. If we look at Stephen Hawking, he has tremendous disabilities, but this is counter balanced by his abilities. In that regard he is not any different to any one of us. For example, a person in a wheelchair might not be able to run and walk, but they might for example, be able to enable another person emotionally. Disabled heart chakras are not visible, so the question then is not who is disabled and who isn't, rather, it is who has been diagnosed and who hasn't. Does that make sense. What are your disabilities, for we all have them. If you can find that out and work out how you are disabled if it isn't an overt disability, you might be able to take steps to improve your lot. So, when we use these labels, The Disabled, why call people that, why not call them The Enabled because the only difference is in how you look at it. We are all disabled, and we are all enabled. I got into thrash metal at 13. It was a full time education, school was an irrelevant endeavour, a means to an end. But it gave me some severe emotional disablements which I hadn't necessarily had before, having been quite an emotive child. The amount of mental work that it involved was considerable, and it was a form of extreme burden which most don't carry. It was both an enablement, psychoactively and a disablement emotionally. When I say emotionally, I mean that tender nurturing mother love type emotion. What understood is that a physcially disabled person is not any more disabled, in absolute terms than an able bodied person, they just have different forms of enablements and disablements. I considered myself, for sure, in an emotional wheelchair, or at least carrying a walking stick at any rate. The difference between a physical wheelchair and an emotional wheelchair is that one will be disabled in invisible ways and the other in visible ways, that is all. I know it may be sacrilege to say that, but consider a deaf person, are they any more disabled than, for example, someone who is emotionally deaf, as I was and many other, for example, but is not considered overtly disabled or at least has to make a case for their disability to be recognised. You know those things called feelings that people have, there are plenty of people, often who work with machines and so on, that don't have those. Not because they are 'bad' any more than a deaf or blind person would be seen as bad, but because they have a disability. If someone can't hear emotion around them, what's that other than a disablement? So, relative to the guy who can climb Everest, most people are disabled, you see my point? But then relative to them, he has his disabilities also. Perhaps he can't cook a descent meal, but he can climb Everest. Every single one of us has things we are talented at and things we find difficult. It is the nature of life that if one person finds something easy, someone else will find it difficult. So, we may see this one day yet, everyone considered, both enabled and disabled at the same time. Can you program a computer. Ah, you're disabled then. Everyone can validly claim to be disabled, it is just a question of whether they want/need to or not. There is a line in a tallica tune, I see your freedom in my sight. One persons freedom, emotion, might not be anothers. Your mind can sore, but you heart will sink in equal measure. The people who are willing to do that, kill their heart to

open their mind are very few and far between.