Good Pain/Bad Pain?

To clarify the social construction of disabiity, I believe I will need to clear up the posible issue of believing that pain is bad, or good. Pain is pain, nothing more. If pain or illness lasts for more than 12 months, and effects a significant life funtion such as eating, learning, and/or mobility, than it qualifies as a disability onder the ADA. Pain is real; illnesses are real. One can see if snot is running ot of your nose, or if a joint is twice the size it once was. Is this bad? NO!!!

I have been sick and felt bad, but these feelings were socially conditioned. For example, in studies on people riding thrill rides, polling people who hate rides, and people who love rides, the physical responses to the rides are the same: increased heart rate, pit in the stomach, dizzyness...the people who love it emotionally react to the body as positive, and the people who hate it emotionally react negative. So, if I am feeling drained of energy and in pain due to an illness, I cannot help but think that my social conditioning might play a significant role. This is part of fully claiming disability, learning what the triggers are to negitive feeling, and making changes. Microbes cannot keep a person down, and the more we learn, the greater posibilities we have of acting on this probbable truth. Keep in mind I am not saying that disability is our fault, I am saying that we have accepted something from our AMERIKAN upbringing and the way we need to make change is to change AMERKIKA. Individuals should not be passive recipients of social input.