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Open Demographics Initiative: An open standard for collecting identity/demographic data in open source communities.
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Added two new recommendation questions #33

Open guptatrisha97 opened 6 years ago

guptatrisha97 commented 6 years ago

I feel the questions need to be expanded to cater to the following points:

1) The personality: Is the person typically positive or negative, dependent or independent? Someone with a positive outlook is more likely to embrace a disability then someone with a negative outlook. Someone who is independent will continue to be independent and someone who is goal-oriented will continue to set and pursue goals. 2) The Nature of Disability – Is it an acquired disability(a result of an accident, or acquired disease) or congenital (present at birth)? If it is acquired, it is more likely to cause a negative reaction than a congenital disability. Congenital disabilities are disabilities that have always been present, thus requiring comparatively less of an adjustment than an acquired disability. 3) The Meaning of the Disability to the Individual - Does the individual define himself/herself by his/her looks or physical characteristics? If so, he/she is more likely to feel defined by his/her disability and thus it will have a negative impact.

drnikki commented 6 years ago

Hi @guptatrisha97 - thanks so much for contributing!! I do have a few concerns, however:

The meaning of a disability to an individual is most certainly relevant and important, though not static (though you could argue that nothing about humans is ever static) so I'm also concerned about asking about that.

Could you share a reference - a webpage or article even - that inspired this contribution? I'm interested in hearing others' thoughts about this as well.

guptatrisha97 commented 6 years ago

@drnikki I used to work for an NGO for disable children. The thing I learnt there was that if children define themselves by their physical characters means that they are conscious of themselves and this would probably mean that they let disability define them too. However, I do agree with your point that it is not necessarily static. I can edit that point if it does not sound suitable enough. I was reading up about disable people and got my inspiration from http://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/nas1/07c187/Module%201/module_1_p2.html