>Michael, aren't "inabilities" experiences that occur, not as a result
of
>one's own impairment, but rather the inability or unwillingness of a
>cultural to accommodate the needs of a particular individual to do
>something?
Often-- but certainly not always.
A recent example from my own life:
I went to a day-long singing workshop. It was to end in a performance,
which I badly wanted to be involved in. Instead, tho, I started having
seizures, and spent several hours in hospital.
My inability to sing in that performance was *entirely* because of my
impairment, as far as I can see. There is just no way it could have
been accomodated, nothing that would have made it possible for me to
perform on that day.
- Ria
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