Do you know any disabled people?

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How many people with disabilities do you know? Or did? Our neighbor has no eye and has a glass eyeball instead. I knew two people with cerebral palsy as well. My uncle was almost blind and he had friends who were a hunchback and a blind man with no hand who was a husband of this lady with a hunch. I also knew some man who taught in my high school and he had no left arm.

Quite a few people with developmental disabilities go to my clubhouse. I also know a man with use of only one of his arms who works at a pharmacy. There's another man who's missing half of one of his arms who works at Chapters. I also know a man who's deaf and he's in his 80s. I know a few people who are on the high end of the autistic spectrum. I also know a man and a woman who both have Ceberal Palsy. I know two women who have Praider Wlli as well. One has gotten her eating under control and lost a lot of weight. The other one eats like food is going out of fashion and she keeps packing on the weight. I know two people who have Dyslexia. I also have a hew friends who have learning disabilities as well. I also know a woman who has Down Syndrome. It's a great pleasure to have the opportunity to know each and every one of these people.

I know two people with Down's Syndrome; I hung out with one in junior high and the other is an employee at my mom's work. I used to live next door to a kid with hearing disabilities. I've also known three people who are missing fingers; one was a tutor at my elementary school, one is a friend of my dad's, and one is my own mom.

I lived with almost deaf girl in one room for two years.

My sister is intellectually disabled. For the most part she functions like an average four-year-old.

She's the only one I know personally, but I've met lots of disabled people at school, parties etc.

Well, there's also granpa who lost a finger to some machine at work and hit his head pretty bad twice: once he fell off a bus, years later an icicle fell on his head and he was in a coma for two weeks. That affected his behaviour and probably counts as a disability.

Oh my... I should go to bed, but I couldn't help googling that.

Here he lies
In a sad pickle
Kill'd by icicle

^^ Greetings Irulan.

I believe that a friend within my family possesses Multiple Sclerosis. In addition, I believe that two friends within my family have been blessed by severe depressions.

Yes, I have friends who are disabled (with MS, missing extremity legs, hands and partial arm missing, visually and hearing impaired) in a way that is noticeable on the outside.

I'm disabled physically as well but people don't see it. It's all on the inside so it doesn't show unless I get exhausted and stay in bed like I'm getting ready to do right now.

i have a friend with muscular dystrophy, scary disease.

Now you just have to define "disability"?

Yes, I've not only worked with children whom have cerebral palsy but, have encountered people with various difficulties whether it's of a sensory nature-sight or hearing as well, neurological-- autism,schizophrenia,depression,etc..

I've known lot of people with disabilities.

I had a friend with Down's syndrome when I was 12 and 13.

I knew two boys with Down's syndrome when I was seven and they were in my class.

In high school there was a girl with down's syndrome who was two grades ahead of me and then there was a boy with it who was two grades behind me.

When I was six and seven, I had a girl in my class who used crutches and wore supporters around her ankles and she was incontinent.

When I was six I had a boy in my class who was non verbal and he only said a few words. He may have been autistic.

In my neighborhood there used to be this boy who rode my bus and he had mental retardation due to brain damage he got when he was three.

I used to be a teachers assistant for special needs people - various different disabilities, but other than that can't say I know many people with disabilities, at least not that I know of...except my mother who has back problems that class her as disabled, and my sign language teacher who is obviously deaf.

I've known quite a few disabled people in my life. I have low vision & am extremely nearsighted & after high-school I went to a training center for people with low vision to learn life-skills; some of the people there had other disabilities besides vision. One of my mom's best friends who she grew up with & is a family friend has polio. I was a member of a bipolar support group for a bit years ago; I'm not bipolar but I had similar issues with depression; I've also known quiet a few bipolars online years ago.; I've tried using dating sites for people with physical disabilities as well as mental ones. I knew a few people at work with disabilities as well

Definitely. I used to go to a school for children with autism.

I don't consider myself to be disabled, but I have enough deficiencies that have hindered me from getting everything I want from life. I feel sort of socially disabled, though that may cheapen the word given what some people have to go through.

I have an Uncle that lost a leg in a car accident when I was very small. I have done some work with Special Olympics. I have an older cousin with epilepsy that prevents him from driving or working.