Am I the only one that finds it weird that in English: “your disability got worse” and “your ability got worse” mean the same thing even though the words disability and ability effectively means the opposite thing, ie. Are antonyms.

  • Dave Coe@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    “Ability” and”disability” aren’t opposites. The ability to climb stairs would be lost given the disability of having no legs.

    My ability to climb stairs would get worse as I aged. My disability would get worse if I only had one leg and lost a second.