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A 2011 survey found that 88% of people with an invisible disability had negative views of disclosing their disability to employers. [11] A 2022 study on disabled students found that those with invisible disabilities felt less supported by their educational institution than their visible counterparts.
A disability may be readily visible, or invisible in nature. Some examples of invisible disabilities include intellectual disabilities, autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, mental disorders, asthma, epilepsy, allergies, migraines, arthritis, and chronic fatigue syndrome. [1]
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Some causes of disability, such as injuries, may resolve over time and are considered temporary disabilities. An acquired disability is the result of impairments that occur suddenly or chronically during the lifespan, as opposed to being born with the impairment. Invisible disabilities may not be obviously noticeable.
Organizations like the Invisible Disabilities Association are working to make non-apparent disabilities more visible in society, through legislation, ID cards and even parking placards that may ...
The scheme uses the sunflower as a symbol for disability. Hidden Disabilities Sunflower is a British scheme and company created to help people with hidden disabilities navigate and find help in public places, by providing sunflower lanyards to provide for people with hidden disabilities to signal their need for extra help in public.
Naomi Chainey has described how the term has also spread to use by some in the wider disability community, and how eventually the non-disabled community tried to appropriate it for other uses, to refer to non-chronic forms of fatigue and mental exhaustion – which she attributes to people with invisible disabilities being a sometimes ...
The person-first stance advocates for saying "people with disabilities" instead of "the disabled" or "a person who is deaf" instead of "a deaf person". [5] [6] [7] However, some advocate against this, saying it reflects a medical model of disability whereas "disabled person" is more appropriate and reflects the social model of disability. [8]