Like everyone else in society, regardless of my legal status, I am
physically handicapped. For instance, regardless of my desire I can
never be a professional heavy-weight boxer, a supermodel or a famous
tenor … At least not without a some serious hormone therapy and a
drastic increase in my calorie intake! Like all other people,
regardless of any so called “handicap”, there are certain jobs I can’t
do due to my physical attributes. However, I can’t excel at hundreds of
other jobs because I either don’t want to or I believe I am not
sufficiently talented. How we categorise ourselves and where we fit in
to our own framework of understanding leads the vast majority to the
belief that they are unable to achieve the highest levels of attainment
in their chosen field of endeavour. This a far greater handicap and
disability than virtually any physical problem I can think of, with the
exception of death!! From politics to theoretical physics and numerous
other examples beside there are people whose careers prove that the
biggest handicap is the framework of understanding in which people
place themselves, and that even the severest of physical difficulties
are at most secondary.
