LoveSweeties

I hope it's alright to post my own opinion on here. There are lots of differing views on here as to whether it is a disability or not. I think the differing views on here are less to do with the classification of "incontinence", but the classification of "disability". I think some peoples view is that a disability is something that must impact severely on your day to day life, something that is difficult to cope with. However, some people cope very differently to others. One person may see deafness as a disability, but a deaf person who has been so all their life may know no different and not see it as a disability. In the legal sense, incontinence IS classed as a disability in the vast majority of countries. The world health organisation states a disability involves "impairments, activity limitations and participation restrictions", and the term impairment means "a problem in body function or structure" (direct quote from the world health organisation). Therefore, incontinence IS a disability, as defined by the world health organisation, and is so under UK law and probably US law and other countries too.

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