why don't the disabled focus on searching for a cure instead of fighting for impossible?

Why not come with a cure for all disease and AIDS? It comes down to economics, dude. The Pharmaceutical Industry is a huge industry and they are not going to cure the disable. There are foundations where you can donate your money, but only about 20-40% of that money goes to the actual research. Meanwhile, band aids are placed on the sick to keep them living long enough to make a profit.

Look Magic Johnson who was HIV positive. He was able to afford the cure where he was taking shots in his eyelids. But, the poor will never have access to that treatment.

Good luck in finding cures. Most likely cures already exists, but it is sitting on shelves of money making corportate companies.

Sometimes I do that, too. I'll get a new friend and then back off because I don't want to be rejected. It's happened too many times. However, when I do that, I'm really only hurting myself. Not everyone out there is going to reject me based on my disability, although there is certainly a majority of the population that will and do!

I think you're right--if there was a cure for my disability, I'd want it. Immediately. But as of right now, there's not one. And sadly, even though the condition I have is a common one, there aren't a lot of people who are interested in curing it or even making it more bearable.

There are some "normal" people who will accept the disabled on their own terms. They are few and far between, it's true, but they are there. All the same, I know first hand the frustration that comes from living with a stigma and not being seen as a person.

cokezero - I have read your questions before and I know where you are coming from. I have helped support numerous poeple who have you condition so I feel qualified to let you know this - all this talk about rejection is because you EXPECT people rejecting you because you ASSUME they will never accept your condition. Unfortunately - that is the mindset of people with your condition and I don't know what to say or do to make you change it.

All I can do is to reinforce this FACT: Normal people CAN and DO accept disabled people as equals on their own terms. However, you also need to accept other people as equals. But hopefully, if I (and other regualr users here in this section) repeat positive comments and encouragement to you often enough, it may, one day, change your mindset to be more positive about te world around you.

Having a cure is one thing - but there are something that can not be cured -if you are talking disability in general. It is NOT the cure - it is about living the life we all have now that is more important. And you can live being miserable and bitter expecting people to accept you or live it in a positive way. It is YOUR choice.

I hope this helps.

THINK POSITIVE OF OTHERS and they will think positive of you.

Cheers

Should I feel sorry for you or what? I have a TBI, I'm not able to work and receive SSI and SSD. I'd rather focus on being able to live, not just survive. So you're really bitter and angry about your own disability? Start looking at all the positive things you can do. Why not learn as much as you can and then some, on your disability; if you have trouble reading, which some people do, ask you doctor about it. Start writing; you have the ability to do that and you are able to see, with or without glasses. And find a group of other people with a similar disability and find out where they are coming from.

I have not rejected you, I just am tired of hearing people feel sorry for themselves in a bitter manner.

Because you only have one life, presumably. And I don't know of anybody that thinks you will be reincarnated with the same disability over and over again. I guess it depends somewhat on what disability you have, but generally speaking, a cure is often just a remote possibility. So you have to come to terms with the reality of your disability.

A colleague of mine has two children in wheelchairs, who are adults now. One is severely spastic. She asked if she would ever walk, when she was five years old. And her mother told her "no". What else could she have done? However, she could not leave the child without hope, so she told her that, like all children, at night she could fly. She grabbed her child's shoulderblades and indicated how at night wings grew out of there. She needed to face the reality of her situation, but she also needed hope. Hope that there was a huge world of possibilities she could access.

When the girl was eight years old, she said that she wanted to learn to write. She said she knew it was probably impossible, but she had to try. She would give herself three years, and if after three years she would still be unable to write she would not try it anymore. She can write now actually, after about three sentences her hand gets too tired, but she can write people letters that way. She has learned to push herself to the limit in a way that few people without disabilities have.

So what's the moral of this story? You have to find hope in yourself to do what you can, not what you wish were possible. That is incredibly rough. But that is the only way to handle it, not focusing on a cure. The same goes for social contacts I think. Don't apologize for who you are, don't try to hide it. And mostly don't be afraid. If you are afraid of being rejected you will be. True, chances are you will be rejected anyway, because social life is not fair. But if you don't take chances you will lose for sure. Take care, be strong and be honest.

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I understand where you are coming at and I would love to find a miracle cure for all disabilities and ailments, but until that happens we must accept these differences and try to work with them. Many disabilities do have treatment methods.

im disabled and theres no point in fighting for a cure, because its a birth defect and i cant change it. my parents have done things to alleviate things, like got me leg braces,etc. and in ur last line.....ur writing that because ur not self-confident(im not either), u look down on urself and thats why u expect that they will reject u. just wait it out, be urself, and THEN see if they reject u. i bet they wont, because they are trying to befriend u and know ur disabled-if they didnt like u cuz ur disabled, they wouldnt have tried to befriend u in the first place.

I have lupus with organ involvement. I do quite a bit to lobby and fund raise and raise awareness in the hope of a cure.

But, I sure as heck don't reject myself. People can take or leave me just as I am. If they don't want to be around me, then good riddance.

Rejection IS hard to take. I've had to let a lot go. Just release your fears and try to make friends. There are a few good people out there. It's the mind that matters anyway!