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From: Stephen.White@f853.n681.z3.fidonet.org (Stephen White)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Smoking As Disability (?)
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Date: 12 Jan 90 02:19:11 GMT
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 > need to careful how we define disability.
 >
 > As a person who has been paralyzed for many years, I would
 > cheerfully
 > trade places with someone who is deaf.  But that is because
 > I
 > understand my disability and do not appreciate fully the
 > difficulties of being deaf
 
 
Oh I'd say that the main difficulty of being deaf is the language barrier. 
Once that's solved, there is really not much of a problem.
 
But then I've never been ABLED, so I dont know how much of a problem 
I'm having!
 
Probably a lot less, seeing all these people shoot themselves from 
stress!
 
 
Steve!

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