According to Henry Evans in "I Was Trapped in My Own Body," who among us can reasonably be defined as disabled?

Henry Evans remarks that From a distance
all humans are disabled. He goes on to explain that we have adapted to our environment through
evolution and that the capabilities we have developed in this way are obviously limited. The
examples he gives are that we are unable to run faster than about twenty-five miles an hour; we
cannot fly; we cannot stay underwater forever (or even for very long), nor can we be in more
than one place at the same time. All these are limitations which could be seen as disabilities,
since they are things we are unable to do.

Of course, we are able to do many
of these things by using assistive devices. It is easy enough to travel at a rate of more than
twenty-five miles an hour using a car, or to fly in an airplane, or to stay underwater for long
periods using a submarine or diving equipment, or to simulate the effects of being in two places
at once using technology such as a video link. Evanss point is that we all use assistive devices
to overcome our disabilities and that we should remember this when we see and interact with
people who are conventionally regarded as disabled but in fact merely have one or two more, or
different, disabilities than the rest of us.

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