TDPs
I hear stories about people's drunk adventures:
"Man, I was so knocked up that I couldn't even climb the stairs!"
Or,
"I kept thinking the sky was falling so I cried for my mom for, like, a solid 20 minutes."
Or even,
"I crashed my car into a tree that wasn't even near the road because the world was spinning like a blender and I couldn't see shit."
I'm usually impressed by the absurdity of these actions. I'll hear about the quietest kid in class taking one sip and impersonating Kanye West the rest of the night. It's clear to me that alcohol really messes with someone's brain.
When I think about disabilities, conditions like MS or Parkinson's come to my mind. Once you're diagnosed with either of those, you're diagnosed for life. My prototype of the word "disability" usually is a severe long-term condition like paralysis. I immediately think of the extreme end of the spectrum, but thinking about it, there's plenty of short-term disabilities: breaking a bone, tearing an ACL, getting the flu.
Or getting drunk.
People who get drunk lose coordination and basic motor skills. Their visions are blurred and their words are slurred to, sometimes, sound like gibberish. These act as inhibitors to daily activities, similarly to what qualifies other disabilities, so doesn't that classify it in the same category as schizophrenia or breaking a leg? Maybe since it's a short-term condition, people who have it can be labelled as TDPs- Temporarily Disabled Persons.
"Man, I was so knocked up that I couldn't even climb the stairs!"
Or,
"I kept thinking the sky was falling so I cried for my mom for, like, a solid 20 minutes."
Or even,
"I crashed my car into a tree that wasn't even near the road because the world was spinning like a blender and I couldn't see shit."
I'm usually impressed by the absurdity of these actions. I'll hear about the quietest kid in class taking one sip and impersonating Kanye West the rest of the night. It's clear to me that alcohol really messes with someone's brain.
When I think about disabilities, conditions like MS or Parkinson's come to my mind. Once you're diagnosed with either of those, you're diagnosed for life. My prototype of the word "disability" usually is a severe long-term condition like paralysis. I immediately think of the extreme end of the spectrum, but thinking about it, there's plenty of short-term disabilities: breaking a bone, tearing an ACL, getting the flu.
Or getting drunk.
People who get drunk lose coordination and basic motor skills. Their visions are blurred and their words are slurred to, sometimes, sound like gibberish. These act as inhibitors to daily activities, similarly to what qualifies other disabilities, so doesn't that classify it in the same category as schizophrenia or breaking a leg? Maybe since it's a short-term condition, people who have it can be labelled as TDPs- Temporarily Disabled Persons.
This is a very interesting take on disabilities. I guess this shows how views on disabilities can be subjective. What can be considered a disability? (Also, like the dialogue in the beginning which makes it more relatable to some and also adds humor)
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