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"....disabled small business owner" kind of like saying, "empty glass is full of water"? "

No not at all. All it says is that a disabled (in some way) person owns a business and is mixing it up in th REAL world instead of whining about being disabled.

Stop whining. The glass is always as full as anyone wants it to be. A full life is a choice no matter what the circumstances. Our parts guy was telling me a story about a BLIND electrician. Was his glass full or not?

Who cares if a person is disabled? If the work gets done and gets done well what difference does it make? That's the problem with pigeonholing people and their abilities because of what we can see.

Luckiest & DomainDiva -

Thanks for the feedback, I most certainly understand where you are coming from.

You are so WRONG
You did reach a person who reaches out to people in my community dealing
with a disability. I am on the Board of the Independent Living.
LUCKIEST

I would imagine there are various types of disabilities. There are some people with no arms but put a paint brush in their mouth and still paint beautiful things. If they had a friend with a Web site, then the person with a disability can still have a business and sell their painting on-line.

Someone might be wheelchair bound and can't get around, but be very good at home on a computer as a technical person.

I guess we would have to know what your disablity is and then we can help you from there to overcome or suggest how to overcome your specific barriers in life with a business and what you'd love to do. Where there is a wlll....there is a way!!!!!

Where are you located (like CIty and State)??

Some of my "attitude" or complaining comes from my own lack of acceptance, or potentially my inability to accept. I refuse to live on, accepting limitations.

I do not mean to sound so negative, I am just frustrated with myself and my limitations. Whether these limitations are self imposed or not depends on who you talk to, as everyone has the answer to my limitations. Doctors, family, friends, complete strangers, everyone has an opinion about what it is like, and what I should do to overcome it. Yet only the ones that have the same type of disability as me truly understands what it is like.

I am even more frustrated of my current business success level, as my limitations(self imposed or not) have affected my ability to be successful.

I am trying to reach out to others that might have a disability and be a business owner as well. I should probably just not even bring up this topic of a disability in regards to business as what relevance does it really have? The relevance it has is really more on a personal level than anything. I apologize to bring this sensitive topic up and not expect a positive response.

Maybe I am reaching in the wrong place, or maybe this is unprofessional to do this here. It is difficult not to speak of something that has such affect on my life from day to day. I hate these limitations I have whether they are self-imposed or not, they are still limitations.

Someone asked that I post what exactly my disability is, and for me to say what type of disability I have would open a entirely different can of worms, and I am not willing to open myself to the responses I might receive.

The other side to this is that my business is one of my tools I use to deal with my disability, and I have found the topic of disability and work to be extremely sensitive to not only myself but others as well. So why ignore the problem, self imposed or not? Why pretend like it is not there? I open the doors to ridicule and praise, encouragement or disgust, as those doors are already opened.

I am willing to bet that their are others that at the very least will be empowered by this post, if only out of disgust.

So be it.

I would have to agree with you on all points SJCARPENTRY.