predisabled

English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ disabled.

Adjective

predisabled (not comparable)

1. (uncommon) Not yet disabled; prior to being disabled.
   • 2004, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, EPZ Thousand Plateaus, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 470:

     The State apparatus needs, at its summit as at its base, predisabled people, preexisting amputees, the stillborn, the congenitally infirm, the one-eyed and one-armed. Thus there is a tempting three-part hypothesis: the war machine is […]

   • 2019, James M. Shultz, PhD, MS, Lisa Sullivan, PhD, MA, Sandro Galea, MD, MPH, DrPH, Public Health: An Introduction to the Science and Practice of Population Health, Springer Publishing Company (→ISBN), page 271:

     Frailty, a characteristic typically ascribed to a subset of older adults, has been described as “a predisabled' state.” […] A key distinction is that it is possible to be frail without specific diagnosed disabilities.

   • 2021, Jan Doolittle Wilson, Becoming Disabled: Forging a Disability View of the World, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 165:

     In a cure-driven future, Kafer explains, those with acquired disabilities often see themselves (and are seen by others) through a dual identity—the predisabled self and the postdisabled self. Like all binaric identity categories, the first half […]