[anthony__j]

like someone mentioned in a separate comment, you are conflating disease with disability here. when people become too old to walk without assistance, you wouldn't say that they have a walking disease.

[TeMPOraL]

> when people become too old to walk without assistance, you wouldn't say that they have a walking disease.

Why not? We have some peculiar cultural memes related to accepting the inevitable end of life, which we perhaps should revisit. I see no reason to not consider aging itself as a slow-burn disease, one we'll hopefully cure at some point too.

[xhevahir]

"Peculiar cultural memes" is an odd way of describing a piece of advice that one encounters so frequently in cultures the world over.

[Aurornis]

> like someone mentioned in a separate comment, you are conflating disease with disability here. when people become too old to walk without assistance, you wouldn't say that they have a walking disease.

This girl's disease was a genetic auditory neuropathy.

They cured her genetic auditory neuropathy.

Pedantic arguments about what it's called are missing the point. The person had a specific disease. It was cured.

[anthony__j]

to you, this is a pedantic argument. but to millions of Deaf people in the US alone, this is a very important political point. for example, lots of Deaf people who prefer to live without cochlear implants face lots of pressure from people who consider deafness to be a "disease" to be "cured", when in fact, they feel their most authentic way of living to be something different. in this way, language is significant

[s_dev]

Yes but the arthritis or whatnot that causes the impairment is a disease.