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Can The Government Really Label You Disabled?

By: Rick London It seemed like only yesterday that I was living in Washington, D.C., working in corporate America, waking up at 6 am, rushing with my coffee while I brushed my teeth and put on my pinstripe suit and yellow power tie, and drove to work, arriving before rush hour. Only to be stressed out the rest of the day and night.

Then came a myriad of health issues including, but not limited to, heart attack, a burst appendicitis, a dysfunctional vagus nerve (requiring an implant) and a myriad of other health problems, I was put on the corporate sidelines, and, doctors said I would not be working again and I had only been working less than 20 years.

To be technical, I was now considered disabled. I did not buy the term. I bought a cheap computer and learned all I could about the Internet. I learned how to be a cartoonist and writer. I learned how to outsource and license the manufacturing of my image products. I became an entrepreneur within a few years, yet the government still considered me disabled.

So I built the most popular offbeat cartoon site on the web and twelve licensed image specialty stores. Told social security. "Sorry you are disabled".

So I went back to college and even received a scholarship, completed 3 years but had to drop due to health reasons. It was not an easy college, a small (known to be difficult) private school. I made good grades. Still, I was disabled. I was beginning to realize what a person's opinion, simply a label, can do to affect another human being's life.

I let the government know of my activities, yet they simply ignored my suggestion that maybe a disability is not a disability at all. If one really wants to do something, it can be done.

I believe we need to stop and think about labeling others and look within. Just because a person has fallen ill does not mean he/she cannot be a productive member of society. I have since learned many others have gone on to do things I hope one day to be able to do.

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Rick London founded the most visited offbeat cartoon site on the Internet, Londons Times Cartoons and 12 web stores featuring his products. To visit one of Rick Londons cartoon gift & collectible stores, click here

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