>disabled people in my 21+ years of duty. The vast majority of my contacts
  >with disabled people have been very pleasant. I've had the advantage of
  >having several very close friends who are disabled, and I have different
  >thoughts about disabled people than the average person. I consider them to 
b
  >differently abled, not disabled. In my observations, God has given 
strengths
  >and positive traits that overshadow the disability, thus the term
  >"differently abled". I learned this from a young man who became angry when
  >people would call him disabled; yet he was partially paralyzed, in a
  >wheelchair, and almost blind.
This reminds me of a very special lady who I had the pleasure of working
with until just recently (She went on to a job that pays more than I
make). She was born profoundly deaf. She kidded me often about me being
"deaf impaired" .
Over the course of nearly five years of working very closely with her, I
learned to be quite fluent in ASL, the American Sign Language.  Now when
a panhandler approaches me offering a little American flag lapel pin,
asking for a donation because he is "handicapped", I tell him in his own
tongue how to get a job.  I've even been surprised by an _audible_
response to have sex with myself .
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