#temporary disability

to be fine one minute

then disabled the next.

To be going about your day

then experience crippling pain.

To be unable to do the things you normally

took for granted.

To plan your life around a pill schedule.

Always on the look out for side affects and worsening.

To be in a constant state of pain.

To only rate movements and positions on how barable the pain is.

To struggle to just get out of bed.

To know that'll you'll heal in time

and yet the lack of progress is discouraging

and makes you feel like a failure

who will never heal.

To have to rely on others for simple things like getting out of bed.

To have given up on basic chores and self care

because it causes far too much agony to even bother.

To be unable to feel joy

because despite the two prescription painkillers you are on

all you can ever feel is agony.

To be mocked and rediculed for something you have no control of.

To feel so useless and hopeless.

Being unable to reach out for help

because "I'm not really disabled"

and "I would only be talking aid from those in actual need".

To be trapped in a failing body,

all the while you try to pretend that you are fine

as you drown under all the expectations you could normally meet.

To feel exhausted, humiliated, and like a burden.

Just a couple weeks you tell yourself

I was wondering about a character with superpowers and whether or not they would be considered disabled, the power in question being regeneration. If a character can regenerate a lost limb, but it takes numerous days or possibly even months to do so would this character be considered temporarily disabled when the limbs are lost, or would the fact they'll regenerate nullify this completely?

I've found a few answers, and the general consensus seems to be no but I was hoping I could be provided with a more specific answer, thank you!

Hi asker,

Nope, you're not breaking any ask rules.

I am inclined to agree with the general consensus that the character in general wouldn't be considered disabled.

However, it is in a way similar to breaking a limb. Obviously it's not exactly the same, but it is similar in that for X amount of time, the limb is out of full commission and is slowly regaining function but it isn't a 0 to 100 situation. This can be considered a temporary disability.

I know you want a very specific yes/no answer, but that's a little harder to do with things that aren't possible in our world.

But if you ask me, personally, I would consider it to be a temporary disability.

Hope this helps,

Without the ability to use the secondary cane I have if I need increased stability, she would not have been able to get out of bed or stand from sitting, or sometimes walk without it when she pulled a muscle in her back/hip suddenly. She would have been reliant for help without it.

We also got one for my mother when she visited because she has trouble getting up and walking around on her own sometimes.

I am in an unfamiliar town traveling for the eclipse, and on Saturday I went for a walk with a friend and tripped on a heaved sidewalk. My hip locked and I fell, luckily to the boulevard side so I landed mostly on grass. It hurt a lot, and I sat for awhile before determining nothing was broken and I could stand up, but wouldn't be able to walk back to where we were staying. My friend called her husband and said we needed a ride, and he picked us up. In the immediate aftermath I iced my hip, took ibuprofen, and took a hot shower and did some gentle stretching. It was pretty obvious to me I didn't need to go to urgent care, but one of my friends was skeptical and consulted a doctor friend of ours, who agreed but told him danger signs to watch out for that would indicate I did need to get checked out.

But by evening I was thinking about how I was going to handle the rest of the trip, not to mention getting home at the end, and quickly realized that the answer was to go buy a cane. And I'm not sure I would have realized that if I hadn't been listening to disability advocates online talking about the importance of normalizing mobility aids for several years now. So in the morning we swung by a pharmacy, I picked up a cane, and it hasn't really been a big deal. I move a little slower than my friends and can only carry things with one hand. But I brought a crossbody reusable shopping bag, because I usually do on vacation, so I can shove stuff in it. I thought about requesting assistance at the airport tonight but my hip's been feeling better every day and I'm walking almost normally for short distances, so we decided to check our bags instead of carrying on and I'll be fine with my cane.