Do you know any disabled people?

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I think I know more people with some kind of disability, as defined by medical documentation (regardless on whether they see it as a disability themselves), then I know people without.

I think the rate of people from the top of my head is; 16 - 4 in favor for disability. That includes anything from people on the autism spectrum, rheumathic artritis, severe braindamage due to stroke and then some. And these pretty much just the people I've interacted with 2 weeks ór are connected to them (so that's just from the top of my head going through my social network (like, my mental social network).

Yes, most of my friends have disabilities, my one friend has a mild developmental disability/intellectual disability, ADHD, Asthma and back problems. Another one is Autistic and has Tourette's but her tics only come out when she's stressed, another one has Bipolar, PTSD, arthritis and other psychical issues, one has Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and another has a brain injury so yeah a lot

Yes one of my friends a few graduating classes behind me had down syndrome, he is a sweet boy and was my best friend in school. I don't get to see them much sense I moved though, and I wonder how they are doing.

I've always gone to schools for kids with developmental disabilities, so have known a lot of people with many kinds of disabilities such as....blind, deaf, brain injury, cerebral palsy, other motor dysfunction including dyspraxia (which I have), tourette syndrome, fetal alcohol syndrome, intellectual disability, down syndrome, paraplegic, quadriplegic, etc.

I know lots of disabled people:
- My brother is autistic and developmentally disabled.
- I used to sit with the special education kids at my school.
- I go to a social club for kids with disabilities.
- My dad volunteers at a program for adults with disabilities, so the few times I've gone along with him I've gotten to know some of the people there a little.

Oh, yeah..... I used to work as a Home Health Aide----so, in addition to working with the elderly, I also worked with the developmentally disabled.

Also, when I was growing-up, I knew alot of people with disabilities----to include Multiple Sclerosis, mental retardation (that's what they called it, in those days), polio, Downs Syndrome, leukemia, Muscular Dystrophy, Cerebral Palsy, Epilepsy, Lupus (in the days when such a dx meant a horrible death)..... I can't think of any others, right now.....

Oh----and one of my cousins fell off of a tractor and got one of his arms, chopped-off, and my aunt dated a blind man----and, I also met 2 people who could only talk when they pressed into their trachea.

I've met and worked with quite a large number of disabled people. Then again, I was a nurse so I suppose that's expected. A lot of them were in really bad shape, especially those who were on vents and are in a coma.