We’re all just temporarily abled
How many people I know got hit by a car and had their life ruined horribly. Or a bad surgery. Things totally out of their control.<p>We need to see disability as a cost to society we must pay, not a failure of individuals which is more or less what were treating it.<p>The American disability system is basically proving (very painfully) that life is barely livable to get scraps of help. Like below poverty levels.<p>I really wish that we moved away from pain oriented policy - - how much pain are you willing to tolerate so we can get you basic assistance and into some sort of way to guarantee that people live an okay life as a default. My dream is to see this sometime in my lifetime.