How Privileged Are You?

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141. it's only a "privilege" if you accept "disabled" as the "norm"

and then call being able bodied a "special benefit" (the meaning of the word 'privilege') as if it is not enjoyed by about 85% of the population, or more.

I think the perspective of the vast majority should have more validity and that it is silly to call the norm, a privilege.

Further, it is a bit of a mixed blessing. Being able bodied often forces you to load sixteen tons, like I did today, and the day before. It also allows you the "privilege" of maybe losing your job. Whereas my social security report from 2008 said that if I had become disabled then I could have collected $864 a month in disability payments. Instead of that, I made a whole $12,604 for working that year and $14,482 the next year and $13,130 the following year.

Clearly, depending on the disability, a person could be better off in many ways with such a disability.

No, I think the point of the chart is to allow members of certain groups to feel like martyrs To allow them to think "wow, I sure have it tough". Why just look at that - being female is just as bad as being deaf and twice as bad as being poor. And a gay male Asian, like, say George Takei is at +10 for privilege whereas I being a straight, white, hetero, able bodied male am at +95. So what am I supposed to do with this awareness of how much more privileged I am than George?