[QUAD-L] Handicap

[Stacy Harim]

I know some of you know this but found it at www.snopes.com while looking something up.       Handicaprice: The word handicap came from 'cap in hand' and referred to the physically disabled's need to subsist as beggars in times past   How about that? No wonder I hate the word.  It's been 5 years since memorial weekend and I can't believe it.  My friends are also stunned.  Anyhow I have come to grips with the disability but I just still don’t see myself as disabled or having a disability.  I still feel as though I was 5 years ago before my sickness that damaged my cord.  I just sometimes remember those things that I used to do and miss them but other than that, I feel as just myself aside from some occasional frustration when I have a lot of spasms and of course this flap.    Those of you that have older disabilities para's and quad's, I'd like to know your thoughts.     Just curious, Stacy