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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Woah. I guess in your woRLD, OP, disabled people are only allowed to… sit home by themselves and be “disabled”? What does that look like to you? Sad, lonely and housebound?

The actual answer is that a disability doesn’t necessarily preclude living a happy and healthy life. It just means that to do that, you may need accommodations that some employers are not willing or able to extend.

Maybe your neighbour still has to attend many appointments per week with RTs, physiotherapists, primary care team, pain control team. Perhaps before and after those tennis games, she needs extra rest, medication, pain control, etc. Also, not every tennis game is at the level of Steffi Graf. Disabled people play all kinds of sports.

As far as vacation, I’m not sure what is your point. People with disabilities do get to go on vacation. One of my dearest  friends, a senior woman without had polio as a child and has significant physical limitations, has travelled the world, including some exotic location. She travels with her fairly significant limitations in mind.

As far as book club and the like… do you feel that people with disabilities should be hermit shut ins with no brains, hobbies, or friends?

People with disabilities are able to, and should be encouraged to, live healthy, active, and fulfilling lives. [/quote]

All of this. DCUM has always been hatefully ableist. This post is typical of the general DCUM mentality.[/quote]

I don’t think it’s ableist to question why someone with long COVID and presumably compromised lungs would be playing tennis and flying 10 hour flights to Italy . It seems to me germ hubs like airplanes /airports are the last place I’d want to be if I had long COVID[/quote]

What, please explain, “should” they be doing?

Do you view someone post COVID differently than someone who has had a heart attack? Someone with CP or another CF? [/quote]

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