The Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) defines a disabled person as someone who has a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on his or her ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities. Normal day-to-day activities include everyday things like eating, washing, walking and going shopping. A normal day-to-day activity must affect one of the 'capacities' listed in the Act which include mobility, manual dexterity, speech, hearing, seeing and memory

I wonder... What about love? Is that a day--to-day activity? I don't mean making love, I mean feeling love. Loving somebody. Falling in love. Feeling in general; experiencing an emotion towards another person, beyond simple recognition. If depression means I can't love somebody, I can't fall in love - is that a disability? When I meet an amazing person, fascinating and beautiful in myriads of ways, and I feel nothing, even when conscious analysis indicates that I love this person and want to be with them, I feel nothing. Like I said before in this entry, caring just doesn't happen. I can't feel anything towards a person I'm with.

No wonder I always end up alone. Who's want to be with a person who'll never feel anything towards them? Who'd want to hang around through the murky grey days, waiting for the short glimpse of a person before they return to the usual numbness?

I can love you with my mind, but never with my heart. Is that enough for you? It's not enough for me. Does my inability to feel make me disabled? Or does the way a person feel not matter when determining impairments?