Person first adds perspective

It's all about putting things into perspective. I've said things like "disabled child", but was corrected to "child with a disability". I didn't understand how the ordering of the words mattered, but Laura helped me understand it a bit better. Apparently it's person first, disease / condition second because the person is the most important part. They are not the disease. They are not the label. They have their own identity.

It's all about perspective. Talking to a guy at work with a disability, he says that the disabled community refers to people without a disability as the "currently abled". That has a strong tinge of this too shall pass.

Along this train of thought I'd like to post Invictus which I find an extremely powerful poem.

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.