Well its just a very old fashioned and very degrading way to look at disabled people. Its like calling people cripples. Have you never heard the phrase, 'I am not my disease'? theres a social and a medical model of disability. the medical one is the disease, the social one is the person with the disease. he may face certain challenges, but he is a human being, not a disease.

If your life had been touched by chronic disability, you would be comfortable with these ideas and understand them totally.