mental or physical disability?

Philippines
September 25, 2010 6:22am CST
I came across an article today. It was about a model who must undergo a very sensitive operation. I don't know what kind of but it was like the effect will somewhat require her to choose which part of her body she could live with paralyzed and malfunctioning. A few options were mentioned: left part of the brain, half of her body paralyzed, etc etc. It made me think, what if I had to choose between physical and mental disability? which would I choose? If I were physically disabled but can still think, maybe I could still do some things. But a model might not think like that, will she?
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@oscar6 (1938)
• United States
26 Sep 10
Can I choose neither? lol. If I had to choose I would rather have a physical disability. I feel that most people are more generous to people with physical disabilities than mental disabilities. Its the sad truth. I would never be a model but if I was her id prob pick mental since Im not sure models are that smart. ha ha. Have a great day.
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• Philippines
26 Sep 10
ha ha ha. not so familiar with models and haven't thought about if they are smart or not (smiles). but a beautiful face with an empty mind is really taboo (lolz)
• Philippines
26 Sep 10
that is terrible, simply tragic for anyone to be given a choice from..more so, for a model. anyway, choosing either mental or physical disability, does she have much choice? choosing either is still a lot of sacrifice, for our bodily functions as well as mental functions act in coordination, if one of these bogs down or malfunction, chances are, other functions will malfunction too or will not be able to function in full unlike if all other functions well. but if choosing either physical or mental disability is a life-changing decision, she will either choose or die, then i guess she has no choice but to sacrifice a part of her which performs the least or if its taken out, her other functions will not suffer as much. Like for example, taking out her fallopian tube, or maybe her larynx or voice box( she could still be a model without a voice, can she?). it's just a matter of weighing things, which is more important for her to keep, but definitely not anything that shows, like loss of limb or not her brain, she would be a vegetable.
• Philippines
26 Sep 10
she's likely to be paralyzed but someone here mentioned about therapy so maybe, she can get better physically. thanks for the comment
@cher913 (25782)
• Canada
25 Sep 10
i have a physical disability and i do have limitations. to that end, i am a fairly clear thinker though and am content with my life.
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• Philippines
26 Sep 10
am happy to read your comment. i know a lot of people who aren't contented with their lives and they end wishing they were not what they are. you're cool because you have gained the brighter side to your disability.
@Ramaditya (1227)
• Indonesia
25 Sep 10
I am sorry to hear such sad news. Well, but life must go on, right? So, she absolutely has to choose. If I were in her position, I would choose to suffer physical disability. There are many things I can do with my life, although there is a probability that I will lose my job as a model, but that's not the end of everything. But if I chose to be mentally disabled, then what could I do? Although my body is perfect, but my brain does not. Then I may as well be crazy!
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• Philippines
26 Sep 10
i think a disabled mind is crazy indeed (lolz!) however, it is really difficult to do away with what we have been doing for so long. the girl I read about dreams of becoming a beauty titlist but she can't do it anymore. so sad.
@alyser10 (113)
• Philippines
25 Sep 10
She's in a very tough situation. Feel so sorry for her. Being mentally /physically disabled is really hard to accept. I don't know what to choose if I were in her situation.. I don't want to choose.. But in her situation i think it would be better for her to choose being physically disabled than mentally disabled. At least she can still think right, and can do things which will improve her condition. She can still pray and ask GOD for mercy. With God nothing is impossible.. If she will be mentally disabled how can she do that?
• Philippines
26 Sep 10
agree with you there. and of course, she can still do mylotting...
@louie847 (350)
• Philippines
26 Sep 10
It is really a dilemma being put on that kind of situation where you are going to choose being physically or mentally disabled. All I can say is that, if she is more concerned about being productive in her life after under going the operation, I think she would choose being physically disable rather than not able to think right. And hopefully her physical disabilities would somehow lessen because there are available therapies.
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• Philippines
26 Sep 10
you're right. she might be losing the good posture. heard she'd be half paralyzed, maybe it's because of the nervous system thing.
@chhetp1 (467)
• India
25 Sep 10
Life would be horrible with both mental and physical disability situation. It is very hard to put ourselves into the shoe of this modeler who has life's greatest question about survival. Being disable is still regarded as a stigma in our society. People find it to hard to adjust to these kind of situation. However, the first positive for this person is opportunity to have the life saving operation. Because there are million poor people throughout the world who die of minor diseases. This is surely hard for a modeling to part away with one of the body part and be disabled whole life, however history actually shows that people have achieved greatest places even when they were disabled physically. The live example is the greatest scientist, author Stephen Hawking, who has been able to stirr the world with his books and theories about the universe. So logically becoming mentally disabled would be toughest option to take.
• Philippines
26 Sep 10
hey thanks, i also read that losing something you value so much will also make you more sensitive to the other senses that you took for granted before. like someone who suddenly went blind develops sharper hearing. cool huh?