[nabs-l] "Blindness" vs. "Disability" a philosophical question?

[Antonio Guimaraes]

Hello, Just wanted to quickly throw in my two scents.

Blindness is a disability. We who are blind are not able to do certain 
things. We benefit From or fight against services for disabled students, we 
receive disability checks from the government, and we have loss of a major 
life function, sight.

Jernigan never argued that the blind are not disabled, he argued for blind 
people not to see themselves as handicapped. There is a difference.

I am disabled by definition, and clearly make an attempt to minimize my 
disability with the use of adapted technologies, and a positive attitude, 
but I am unequivocally disabled.

Antonio M. Guimaraes Jr.