Not! All! People! With! Your! Type! Of! Disability! Can! Do! What! You! Can! Do!
[Plaintext: Not all people with your type of disability can do what you can do! /End plaintext]
!!!!! This!!!! My friend and I got the same heart diagnosis in the same year and got put on the same heart medication. He passes out when he gets tachycardia, I just feel nauseated and a bit drunk. He has to take his medication whenever he gets tachycardia, I have to take it once a day at night before bed. We have the same severity of mitral valve prolapse. I may be in more pain and more chronically fatigued, but I can still continue as normal most days. He may not experience the chest pain that much and may have a lot more energy than me, but he passes out frequently and for relatively long periods which he literally can't just push through and needs to take time to recover from.
Alternatively, a friend and I both have scoliosis. He has more severe deviation than I do, mine is actually relatively mild, but I experience more debilitating pain in my lower back and hips that radiates down my thighs and up into my lower ribs. Standing for long periods hurts, being on my feet a lot even if I'm moving a lot hurts, sitting on many types of chairs hurts, soft mattresses hurt. My friend? With the more severe deviation? No pain at all. Just shit posture the lucky bastard. And it's not even because his pain threshold is higher he has diabetes and can be extremely oversensitive to pain, even more than me.
The point of my rambling is that you could have the exact same condition or disability as someone else at the exact same severity level, but your experience could still be totally different. You could even have a less severe condition or disability, but experience more pain and dysfunction. No two people are the same so no two people will experience their disabilities the same. The same water that hardens the egg softens the potato. That does not mean some people are tougher than others, it literally just means that people are made of different things, and therefore will react differently to the same circumstances.
