for example, mostly we go out to work and we depend on a transport system. we depend on workplaces. they are not accessible. the transport system has to be, as it were, retrofitted to be accessible. if we got it right from the start then why would there be a problem? in our conversation at the beginning we focused mostly on inherited conditions and on baseline genetics but i guess the truth is that many people will experience what it means to be impaired or disabled not at the beginning of their life, but much later in their life and old age brings a new level of disability to many of us. to me, or to people i know very well. absolutely. everyone is jetting off to the easter weekend and half are going skiing and will come back injured. because they will have a broken collarbone, a twisted ankle. because it is their one exercise a year and they put everything into it and, guess what, they crash and come back the walking wounded. i am sorry for them but we are all temporarily able—bodied. we are all that far away from having a stroke or having a crash or having an illness.