For too
long of a time I couldn’t understand the reason why my inability to walk made
me obliged to be under conservatorship, after having made my usual research (see links below) I realized of
the existence of a great confusion btw. Physical and cognitive disabilities, in
the sense that while someone who’s forced to sit on a wheelchair (like me)
isn’t necessarily someone who isn’t able to manage money, nor is unable to make
logical choices among various options in any field.
I cannot
believe that in this day and age there are still powerful and important people
who when they see someone sitting on a wheelchair they think that it must be an
idiot they look at (plenty examples here).
What’s ridiculous
is that I was convinced that I still was very logical and clear in my thinking
because of God’s intervention.
Well it isn’t,
in fact I remember very well of a dinner with an important attorney who used to
work for the company that had recently hired me, who was on a wheelchair, I had
dinner with this man and when I went back to my family, I spoke of this (disabled)
man for almost a full hour saying what a good professional he was before
mentioning (almost
as an afterthought) that he was on a wheelchair.
This is the
very reason of this post, or that there are plenty others who – even if
prisoners of a wheelchair – hold important jobs in high positions, so why am I
considered as unable to manage money that I mostly earned in plenty years of
work at very high levels and that comes from my family’s wealth? Am I too
impaired cognitively to count to 10? Where’s the fairness here?
- http://www.disability.wa.gov.au/understanding-disability1/understanding-disability/what-is-disability/
- http://study.com/academy/lesson/what-are-cognitive-disabilities-definition-types-examples.html
- https://aspe.hhs.gov/basic-report/physical-and-cognitive-impairment-do-they-require-different-kinds-help
- http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/
- http://evilautie.org/2012/11/30/cognitive-vs-physical-disability/
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16042232
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