What is disability? What are the different types of disability? These are the questions you may be asking and that will be answered. Anything that affects you from doing an activity that any person without a disability can do. There are a lot of different disabilities that are mental and physical, and you do not always start with a disability. More people obtain disabilities later in life instead of at birth.

There are a lot of physical disabilities that people can obtain. These physical disabilities include walking, hearing, or not being able to move a certain part of your body. Even the smaller things like if you have poor vision then you can be considered to have a disability. If you are unable to hear out of both ears, you definitely have the possibility of having a hearing disability.

Eyesight disability affects a lot of people nowadays. If you are a person that wears glasses, you technically have Eyesight disability. Even if your eye sight is slightly bad, as long as you have glasses or contacts, you are able to claim Eyesight disability. You can get obtain bad vision over time because your eyes just get worn out from age, but some people are born with bad eye sight and can claim the disability right away. Even if the disability develops over time, you can still claim disability.

If you have difficulty listening to people, or you are always asking everybody to repeat themselves, you may have a hearing disability. Whether you are deaf, or partially deaf, it does not make a difference, you can still qualify as a hearing disability.

Any part of the body that stops you or makes life a little harder, is a disability. If you have a missing thumb or other body-parts from a drastic accident, then you have a physical disability because you do not own what the average person does. If you are unable to move a certain body part or you are unable to walk. You may be considered to have disabilities.

If you have difficulty taking in certain information from other people, maybe you cannot do any activities without assistance, or if you cannot talk with people, you are most likely considered to have a disability. Mental disabilities are obtained at birth, but sometimes you can get a mental disability from a tragic accident like falling off something high off the ground.

If you have a hard time talking with different people, then you probably can claim mental disability. If you cannot think for yourself or able to think easily, you may have a mental disability. People with dyslexia have a disability because letters and numbers appear backwards in the brain. People with dyslexia have a harder time thinking than the average human, thus making dyslexia a disability.

Whenever a daily activity that takes five minutes for the average person starts taking ten minutes for another person, the person that is taking ten minutes may have a disorder. It may be attempting to read something or trying to walk around, the person still may have a disability. If this person sounds like you, you should go to your doctor and see if you are disabled.