i HATE the umbrella terminology

i always went to regular classes in a regular school. the principals fought my mom on this one. even though the standardized tests given every so often put my knowledge at college level by 5 th grade in spite of not having glasses and never having a hearing aid. people could not tell i had a hearing problem i had taught myself so well. nobody was going to say i was stupid. i did very well until my neck fusion. now its harder to hide especially since i dont have glasses either. i need to see better to make up for what i don't hear.
i rejected the disabled label. i didn't ever want to be lumped in the same group as tube fed kids who never learn anything. maybe its somehow insensitive but i don't see any comparison. my body does not work. my mind does
i think there should be more specific differences. like with voc rehab i had tons of education and experience and they kept pushing me to take a job an 8th grader could do but i physically could not. just because they are "voc rehab" they know better what i can do than they can?
bullsh^8.
i am trying to adopt a blind dog. the placement says she keeps bumping into the walls, duh. all they need to do is show her where the walls are by walking her around. i have a blind cat. she used to be fearful and a biter. now she sits in the middle of the room and sleeps
how can someone who has not walked in my shoes know what i can and cannot do better than i can?
i think the whole system for the disabled community is a joke. here most of the retarded citizens go to activity centers and dont work. whoever started it had a good idea but when the govt took it they wrecked it
just like everything they do