predisabled
adjEtymology From pre- + disabled.
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Uncommon Not yet disabled; prior to being disabled.
- The State apparatus needs, at its summit as at its base, predisabled people, preexisting amputees, the stillborn, the congenitally infirm, the one-eyed and one-armed. Thus there is a tempting three-part hypothesis: the war machine is […]2004, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, EPZ Thousand Plateaus, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 470:
- Frailty, a characteristic typically ascribed to a subset of older adults, has been described as “a predisabled' state.” […] A key distinction is that it is possible to be frail without specific diagnosed disabilities.2019, James M. Shultz, PhD, MS, Lisa Sullivan, PhD, MA, Sandro Galea, MD, MPH, DrPH, Public Health: An Introduction to the Science and Practice of Population Health, Springer Publishing Company, page 271
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- In a cure-driven future, Kafer explains, those with acquired disabilities often see themselves (and are seen by others) through a dual identity—the predisabled self and the postdisabled self. Like all binaric identity categories, the first half […]2021, Jan Doolittle Wilson, Becoming Disabled: Forging a Disability View of the World, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 165: