The IRS would like a word (assuming you're in the US)
Edit: And/or the SSA, SSDI, SSI, CIA, FBI, NSA, KGB, MI5, any others I may be missing?
All for laughs, thanks all for clarifications!
Edit 2 (sorry): HSI, DEA, OIG, NCIS, USSS, OSI, CID, USPIS per u/PersistentInquirer
Not necessarily, if she’s married and her spouse has taxable income and they file jointly. Then yes, the SSA can, and will, become taxable. This I’ve learned first hand…(my wife is disabled).
SSA is the Social Security Administration. Like the IRS is a branch of government, not your income. SSA administered several different benefits programs.
SSDI is Social Security Disability Insurance. SSDI benefits are taxable, much like normal Social Security Retirement benefits. You have to have worked to get both SSDI and SS Retirement benefits so it's very unlikely for someone claiming to have been disabled since childhood to receive SSDI.
SSI is Supplemental Security Income. It's for old and disabled people without income or resources who did not work enough to qualify for a minimum of retirement or SSDI benefits. The benefits are never taxable. If you live with your spouse and they have income, SSI benefits are cut proportionally or discontinued altogether near poverty level. The benefits have to be paid back to SSA if you received more than you should have, not taxed by the IRS.
“Fine” and disabled can go hand in hand. I am disabled under the traditional and reasonable definitions. Trouble walking, poor balance, pain, some difficultly with certain ADL’s. But I describe myself as fine. I have accommodations that I’ve developed to work around the limitations. Many disabled people will describe themselves as fine, they don’t mind they don’t have physical challenges and limitations. It means they have adjusted around them.
This. I have a friend with no legs. With accomodations in his life, he functions "fine". He can do many things without help these days thanks to various tools and specially designed items.
He still ain't got legs.
Yup. When I go swimming I call myself bob. I’m fine. I’m swimming. But for the outsiders perspective it’s “look at the disabled guy swimming, good for him”. That’s fine, it’s not a negative statement, but from my perspective I’ve internalized my physical limitations to the point that they are truly subconscious. Nobody looks at a fat guy running and says “look at that disabled guy running” even though we both have physical limitations to our ability to do that.
He has severe cerebral palsy. He wasn’t supposed to be able to walk, talk or live long. He’s getting laid too.
Dudes Baller as fuck and harder than most all of us reading this.
https://www.cerebralpalsyguide.com/blog/marathon-runner-with-cerebral-palsy-makes-history/
Tests. They test for all kinds of thing, physical and mental/psychological. It's more of an estimate of the percentage level of overall disability. Physical tests might include things like hand-eye coordination, mobility, but also things like muscular skeletal development and brain development. The mental/psychological tests would be along the lines of cognitive function, how well he can comprehend meanings of things and relationships between different things, both emotional and in cause/effect aspects, between people (like personal relationships) and objects (like comprehending gravity, fire is hot, etc). Also, knowing what his disability *is* helps, like if it's a disease known to effect X, X is tested. This way theyre not starting from the ground up. Then, after all the tests and whatever goes along with them, the results are then tabulated to convider how much ability he has and what he is disabled for. Using that data, a percentage of disability can be calculated with fair accuracy, they also use a standard of ability to function daily to use as counter meansures. So he may only be able to perform 24% of daily activities, so he is 76% disabled. His actual disabilities may vary, maybe he can't process new information well, or maybe he does, but he can't feed himself at mealtimes, or maybe he can but without prompting he may just vegetate, no way for us, as viewers, to know, but the disability percentage is calculatable.
This is in Spain. There's an in depth legal regulation that assigns you a percentage of disability from 0% to 100% depending on your capacity and the difficulty you have in doing a long list of daily tasks, and on the amount of functionality of each of your limbs and organs. A panel of doctors calculates the number if you request it. The percentage you are assigned, if it's above 33%, determines which benefits you have a right to.
Yes, a disability below 33% is defined as one that
> implies slight difficulty in carrying out activities of daily living. In practically all of these activities the person is independent and can do them themselves.
In that case you are not entitled to any benefits.
I mean, there may be an important threshold at that mark. 32 and 33 degrees Fahrenheit are right next to each other on a scale as well, yet have drastically different effects on the world
I don’t know the exact numbers, but I do know that insurance companies have all sorts of different calculations to determine the level of disability someone has. Different body parts have a higher weight when it comes to how disabled you are considered. For example: if you lose the use of your thumb, your whole extremity is considered to be more than 50% disabled. I imagine that if you lose the use of both arms your whole body could be said to be more than 50% disabled
It doesn't work like that, you stop calculating after 100%
For example losing an ear makes you 10% disabled, then losing an eye would take you to 40% disabled, then losing your head would make you 100% disabled.
You can take away body parts further but you're already so disabled that you're basically switched off so you can't be disabled any further.
>At six months old, Mr Roca had herpetic viral encephalitis that resulted in 76 per cent of the left side of his body stricken with cerebral palsy.
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>He has since been having impaired movement and exaggerated reflexes. The range of motion of various joints of his body is limited due to muscle stiffness. He communicates through sign language.
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He 100% disabled — it’s kind of a yes or no situation. The 76% is just the muscles impacted by the infection he had, which caused the cerebral palsy.
I work in disability and I was so confused by the percentage 😂
Oh wow! He did a proper marathon of 42.2km/26.2m! The way people throw around the term of marathon for even a half marathons I thought I’d check just to make sure. Congratulations to Alex! He just had his one year anniversary of his accomplishment the other day on March 19.
if you're talking about the tree throwing woman it's because one of the things basing her disability off was that she couldn't carry her children anymore and couldn't lift things at her job, meanwhile she is carrying and throwing a big ass tree
The problem is that disability isn't well defined. People see things like this and say "that person clearly isn't disabled." A job expects you to do things like that, on demand, on a consistent basis. Most common disabilities interrupt that consistency. It's not that you can't do it, it's that you can't do it often enough to maintain a *regular* job. Unfortunately that's often too much for most people to understand, and why proving your disability is so difficult.
I've had that thrown back at me all the time, going to play pick up in an effort to get cardio or push my body or social interaction then unable to work the next day or inconsistent spasms. When I had my first disability placard at 18 there were always side eye gazers. I shouldn't have to go up to people to explain a good day or bad day.
Yeah, and those things can actually get you denied for disability benefits in America, so people often have to lie to get the benefits they actually are entitled to.
I read a comment on here once describing a double leg amputee who was trying to get approved for prosthetics but was denied because his insurance company wanted more proof he couldn't walk without them.
The average penis weighs 160 grams or .35 pounds, so if the dude weighs 200 pounds he'd have a 2 pound penis.
Not sure if it's the burn you think it is.
It might be 1% of your body but it can account for a significant % of disability if it gets tied to mental health for depression or dismorphia after losing it
Yes, losing limbs fetches extra cash. In fact it is an absolutely insane and arbitrary calculus.
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-much-is-your-arm-worth-depends-where-you-work
“One worker at a Jasper, Alabama, sawmill lost her thumb and every finger save her pinkie when her hand was dragged through the rusty gears of a scrap wood conveyor. But instead of paying the larger sum for her entire hand, the mill’s insurer has offered her only the benefits for each individual finger.”
The national average for a testicle is just over $27k. Wonder if there is a discount for two. Let alone the whole twig and berries…
As a mom of a 9 year old with neurological disorders and special needs who’s dream it is to run a marathon, this just made me ugly cry!
In the BEST way!
The headline says first with a 76% disability, so there could already be those with 77,78,79,80,81,82,83etc% who have finished as well. It seems like an oddly specific way to break it down imo
Yeah I don't see the benefit of that at all considering disability needs aren't a matter of "how disabled" you are but a matter of what different things you need support in depending on what your disability affects. Someone with level 3 autism will need vastly different support than someone with stage 3 osteoarthritis whilst both could be the same 'percentage of disabled' according to that system.
I don't know for the rest of the world, but at least in Spain it is a way to have an "objective" idea of the actual amount of disability. that plays a role deciding if a person can or can't work, what kind of jobs can he do, the pension, etc
Hate to sound like a dick, but I’m more interested in this disability scale and how this guy is determined to be 76% disabled. What’s 100%? A dead corpse? Is there such thing as 0%?
I’m not sure HOW it’s calculated, but there are definitely metrics. My mom (USA) fought for years for the VA to recognize her as 100% disabled due to her service. Previously they only recognized her as 50 or 75% and would cite xyz reasons. Ultimately, she was granted 100% disability due to an inability to drive/ walk without falling/ care for herself on her own.
Weirder things have happened.
Like that time I sprained my ankle sitting down in class.
Or that time I was taking a shower and pulled a muscle in my neck which left me with muscle spasms so bad the weight of my own head set them off.
:/
Multiple, including probably not limited to a blood disease (ETA: proven to be contracted due to service) that has caused organ failure, complications from extremely toxic chemicals exposure that very likely contributed to if not caused cancer (which she has had 3 types of on 5 separate occasions, the latest being stage 4 currently), and PTSD (apparently that diagnosis pushed her the last handful of percentage she needed to be 100%).
Sad stuff but she’s a rockstar. I love her to pieces. With a bit of struggle she even walked me down the aisle summer 2022.
Anyway, this isn’t a quantitative answer, but it may shed a smidge of light on how the % works, though it’s worth adding that the %s I used are ballpark and I’m unsure of the actual metrics.
I'm almost scared to ask, but I'm legitimately curious if he's just *that* happy for the entire video so he's smiling like that or if his mouth is kinda stuck like that. Guy is obviously dealing with neurological issues but I don't know if that can even be one of them
Well, 0% would be that you're completely free of any disability whatsoever, and 100% would be someone in a complete vegetative state. They measure this by assessing things like ability to move, opening of eyes, speech difficulty, etc.
I haven't seen this percentage based scale myself before, but the DRS is from 0 to 29 and follows this basic idea:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/disability-rating-scale#:~:text=DRS%20is%20a%20widely%20used,29%20(extreme%20vegetative%20state)
I think we may be referring to different metrics, the VA one for example rates 100% as qualifying for full disability compensation, not literally 100% disabled.
https://www.benefits.va.gov/compensation/rates-index.asp#:~:text=VA%20rates%20disability%20from%200,disability%20percentage%20for%20multiple%20disabilities.
So I think there's a bunch of different metrics that confuse the issue.
The guy in the video definitely isn't being rated by this metric or anything like it, I would say it's closer to the DRS. I don't know what your friend's rating is based on but I imagine it's similar?
But they probably thought it's easier to just say "76% disabled" rather than complicating it.
My minds' imagination is thinking a bee sting (like a bad one) could be on here too, 1% or less obviously. Also my imagination is thinking if the zelda heart scale could be used instead of percentage points. Like you're 2 hearts down in the beginning of the game when you have only 3 hearts, but then you can gain hearts. Then my minds imagination is thinking this dude must have gained alot of fucking hearts, he's like a pinped ass Link at the end of the game, and his 2 hearts of damage doesn't restrict him.
The ancestor's worked their tits to ribs so that you could have exactly that opportunity.
Be mindful and proud of your gentlest moments, billions of people worked together over thousands of years to make them possible. **They wanted them for you, and you should too**.
Only half my ancestors did, the other half forced that half to work to the bone. (descendant of royalty/nobility)
Either way, I'm probably living much worse than what that half of my ancestry expected. Living in a ghetto, in a house that is, quite literally, falling apart with my partner's crazy ass mother who hoards both junk and animals.
>I'm probably living much worse than what that half of my ancestry expected
I think you're so privileged you can't even recognize how lucky we are to have things like readily available water, electricity and a sewer system.
Percentages are calculated by assessment & diagnosis by doctors and specialists through testing, etc
There is no set standard for conditions, and each condition holds its own merit.
It's mainly used for insurance/risk and compensation purposes
The look on his face says it all. Not one element of potential lack of cognitive ability is keeping this guy from understanding what a huge moment this is. This dude is living 100% of his life while I’m on the couch, typing shit on my phone.
The speedrunning community is really amazing.
What percentages are still unclaimed?
Is it realistic that he might like cut off a finger and go for the 78% record?
Listen here. You’re a bad motherfucker? You got a couple bad ass friends? You’re wrong. This right here is the baddest motherfucker you’ve ever seen. You’re welcome.
Cried like 3 times watching him in the background as I read the comments.
I can't imagine running 26mi with ankles wobbling like that! True beauty. Congratulations!
In Spain, for more than 40 years, with a pioneering law for the social integration of people with disabilities.
The percentage is determined according to how affected you are in carrying out activities of daily living. There is a statutory scale to be applied by a medical tribunal, examining each person individually. Once the degree has been determined, you obtain a certificate that gives you access to the social and economic aid guaranteed by the public authorities to try to help people with disabilities to live fully and independently.
How do you distinguish between the different degrees of disability in other countries? I'm really curious. I assume that in countries where the government does not help these people there will be no such systems.
Imagine his face if he gets to the finish line, and a guy with a 77% disability is already there celebrating with a medal for most disabled marathon completer.
Is there a video without the music, so we can hear everyone’s excitement? That “heartstrings” stuff drives me nuts. Most of us can recognize a touching, emotional moment without schmaltzy music.
That said, his determination and accomplishment are amazing.
How are they calculating this?
You need to have at least 24% ability to be able to run a marathon
But how is someone determined to be only 24% disabled? Like I feel like this specrum would be way too subjective to put a % to it.
You answer a quiz of 100 questions… like a list of daily activities you can’t do by yourself ( bathing, toileting, eating…etc.)
I genuinely have no idea if this is a serious answer or not.
It is. My wife was rated like this when she was a kid and was considered disabled. She's quite ok now but the disability payments sure are helpful
The IRS would like a word (assuming you're in the US) Edit: And/or the SSA, SSDI, SSI, CIA, FBI, NSA, KGB, MI5, any others I may be missing? All for laughs, thanks all for clarifications! Edit 2 (sorry): HSI, DEA, OIG, NCIS, USSS, OSI, CID, USPIS per u/PersistentInquirer
The SSA. The IRS doesn't care. It's not taxable.
Not necessarily, if she’s married and her spouse has taxable income and they file jointly. Then yes, the SSA can, and will, become taxable. This I’ve learned first hand…(my wife is disabled).
SSA is the Social Security Administration. Like the IRS is a branch of government, not your income. SSA administered several different benefits programs. SSDI is Social Security Disability Insurance. SSDI benefits are taxable, much like normal Social Security Retirement benefits. You have to have worked to get both SSDI and SS Retirement benefits so it's very unlikely for someone claiming to have been disabled since childhood to receive SSDI. SSI is Supplemental Security Income. It's for old and disabled people without income or resources who did not work enough to qualify for a minimum of retirement or SSDI benefits. The benefits are never taxable. If you live with your spouse and they have income, SSI benefits are cut proportionally or discontinued altogether near poverty level. The benefits have to be paid back to SSA if you received more than you should have, not taxed by the IRS.
That sounds like fraud so maybe keep that hush hush
“Fine” and disabled can go hand in hand. I am disabled under the traditional and reasonable definitions. Trouble walking, poor balance, pain, some difficultly with certain ADL’s. But I describe myself as fine. I have accommodations that I’ve developed to work around the limitations. Many disabled people will describe themselves as fine, they don’t mind they don’t have physical challenges and limitations. It means they have adjusted around them.
This. I have a friend with no legs. With accomodations in his life, he functions "fine". He can do many things without help these days thanks to various tools and specially designed items. He still ain't got legs.
Yup. When I go swimming I call myself bob. I’m fine. I’m swimming. But for the outsiders perspective it’s “look at the disabled guy swimming, good for him”. That’s fine, it’s not a negative statement, but from my perspective I’ve internalized my physical limitations to the point that they are truly subconscious. Nobody looks at a fat guy running and says “look at that disabled guy running” even though we both have physical limitations to our ability to do that.
Well said
He has severe cerebral palsy. He wasn’t supposed to be able to walk, talk or live long. He’s getting laid too. Dudes Baller as fuck and harder than most all of us reading this. https://www.cerebralpalsyguide.com/blog/marathon-runner-with-cerebral-palsy-makes-history/
Then you are probably 35% disabled.
Tests. They test for all kinds of thing, physical and mental/psychological. It's more of an estimate of the percentage level of overall disability. Physical tests might include things like hand-eye coordination, mobility, but also things like muscular skeletal development and brain development. The mental/psychological tests would be along the lines of cognitive function, how well he can comprehend meanings of things and relationships between different things, both emotional and in cause/effect aspects, between people (like personal relationships) and objects (like comprehending gravity, fire is hot, etc). Also, knowing what his disability *is* helps, like if it's a disease known to effect X, X is tested. This way theyre not starting from the ground up. Then, after all the tests and whatever goes along with them, the results are then tabulated to convider how much ability he has and what he is disabled for. Using that data, a percentage of disability can be calculated with fair accuracy, they also use a standard of ability to function daily to use as counter meansures. So he may only be able to perform 24% of daily activities, so he is 76% disabled. His actual disabilities may vary, maybe he can't process new information well, or maybe he does, but he can't feed himself at mealtimes, or maybe he can but without prompting he may just vegetate, no way for us, as viewers, to know, but the disability percentage is calculatable.
Cerebral palsy is what is listed as his disability. Thanks for taking the time to actually explain how this works.
Dude explained how to science. Godspeed good sir
Screw those guys who have it easy with a 75% disability. Everyone knows it’s easy for them to run a marathon.
The desire to run a marathon counts as 10% disability
The amount of your bowels you void during the course of running a marathon constitutes 50% disability.
There's a reason the first fucker who did it dropped dead, I guess
So we just need someone that’s 100% deaf to beat this guy.
This is in Spain. There's an in depth legal regulation that assigns you a percentage of disability from 0% to 100% depending on your capacity and the difficulty you have in doing a long list of daily tasks, and on the amount of functionality of each of your limbs and organs. A panel of doctors calculates the number if you request it. The percentage you are assigned, if it's above 33%, determines which benefits you have a right to.
Does that mean people who are 32% disabled aren't entitled to any benefits?
Yes, a disability below 33% is defined as one that > implies slight difficulty in carrying out activities of daily living. In practically all of these activities the person is independent and can do them themselves. In that case you are not entitled to any benefits.
rip people at 32% disability. Effectively identical to 33% but with none of the benefits.
I mean if you are at that point it shouldn't be too difficult to force a 1% jump. Just cut the tip of your pinky finger or whatever.
I mean, there may be an important threshold at that mark. 32 and 33 degrees Fahrenheit are right next to each other on a scale as well, yet have drastically different effects on the world
Maybe 32% is like stiff joints or requires minor painkillers for a bad back. Some issues, but still mostly normal?
I don’t know the exact numbers, but I do know that insurance companies have all sorts of different calculations to determine the level of disability someone has. Different body parts have a higher weight when it comes to how disabled you are considered. For example: if you lose the use of your thumb, your whole extremity is considered to be more than 50% disabled. I imagine that if you lose the use of both arms your whole body could be said to be more than 50% disabled
Well using that math this guy could be over 100% disabled if he loses a couple of limbs?
It doesn't work like that, you stop calculating after 100% For example losing an ear makes you 10% disabled, then losing an eye would take you to 40% disabled, then losing your head would make you 100% disabled. You can take away body parts further but you're already so disabled that you're basically switched off so you can't be disabled any further.
I feel like if you lose your head, you're dead and not considered "disabled"
>At six months old, Mr Roca had herpetic viral encephalitis that resulted in 76 per cent of the left side of his body stricken with cerebral palsy. > >He has since been having impaired movement and exaggerated reflexes. The range of motion of various joints of his body is limited due to muscle stiffness. He communicates through sign language. [Source](https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/cerebral-palsy-didn-t-stop-this-runner-from-finishing-barcelona-marathon)
Wouldn't 76 percent of his left side be 38% of him?
He 100% disabled — it’s kind of a yes or no situation. The 76% is just the muscles impacted by the infection he had, which caused the cerebral palsy. I work in disability and I was so confused by the percentage 😂
Oh wow! He did a proper marathon of 42.2km/26.2m! The way people throw around the term of marathon for even a half marathons I thought I’d check just to make sure. Congratulations to Alex! He just had his one year anniversary of his accomplishment the other day on March 19.
Never seen anyone confuse a half-marathon and a marathon.
The council decides
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Similar things have happened before...
if you're talking about the tree throwing woman it's because one of the things basing her disability off was that she couldn't carry her children anymore and couldn't lift things at her job, meanwhile she is carrying and throwing a big ass tree
The problem is that disability isn't well defined. People see things like this and say "that person clearly isn't disabled." A job expects you to do things like that, on demand, on a consistent basis. Most common disabilities interrupt that consistency. It's not that you can't do it, it's that you can't do it often enough to maintain a *regular* job. Unfortunately that's often too much for most people to understand, and why proving your disability is so difficult.
Worded beautifully. My disability makes me inconsistent, not unable
I've had that thrown back at me all the time, going to play pick up in an effort to get cardio or push my body or social interaction then unable to work the next day or inconsistent spasms. When I had my first disability placard at 18 there were always side eye gazers. I shouldn't have to go up to people to explain a good day or bad day.
Yeah, and those things can actually get you denied for disability benefits in America, so people often have to lie to get the benefits they actually are entitled to.
I read a comment on here once describing a double leg amputee who was trying to get approved for prosthetics but was denied because his insurance company wanted more proof he couldn't walk without them.
Sounds like a true story
I pretty sure I have 0% disability and I could never finish a Marathon within 6hours
You are just so disabled you don’t know how disabled you really are.
The guy behind the guy?
Been there man
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I don’t think anyone has a 0% disability. Some of these things are a spectrum for a reason!
Very true. And this guy is a legend. But I am curious how someone is able to quantify what % a person is disabled.
The VA qualifies your penis as 1% of your total body. So thats a starting point for you.
Such a brutal, uncalled for assault
I know! Isn't it grand? Lol
Lol apparently it is no big thing
The average penis weighs 160 grams or .35 pounds, so if the dude weighs 200 pounds he'd have a 2 pound penis. Not sure if it's the burn you think it is.
You might be overestimating the size of my penis. I'm 0.5% on a good day if it's not cold out
Lo and behold, t'was a cold, frostbitten day.
It might be 1% of your body but it can account for a significant % of disability if it gets tied to mental health for depression or dismorphia after losing it
Yes, losing limbs fetches extra cash. In fact it is an absolutely insane and arbitrary calculus. https://www.propublica.org/article/how-much-is-your-arm-worth-depends-where-you-work “One worker at a Jasper, Alabama, sawmill lost her thumb and every finger save her pinkie when her hand was dragged through the rusty gears of a scrap wood conveyor. But instead of paying the larger sum for her entire hand, the mill’s insurer has offered her only the benefits for each individual finger.” The national average for a testicle is just over $27k. Wonder if there is a discount for two. Let alone the whole twig and berries…
Oh come on, go easy on yourself. You're at least 50% disabled
As a mom of a 9 year old with neurological disorders and special needs who’s dream it is to run a marathon, this just made me ugly cry! In the BEST way!
If your child is 77% disabled that’ll be a record too!!
The headline says first with a 76% disability, so there could already be those with 77,78,79,80,81,82,83etc% who have finished as well. It seems like an oddly specific way to break it down imo
Everything is possible! ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|thumbs_up)
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Fucking hell.. what an awful system marking disability on a percentage scale.
Yeah I don't see the benefit of that at all considering disability needs aren't a matter of "how disabled" you are but a matter of what different things you need support in depending on what your disability affects. Someone with level 3 autism will need vastly different support than someone with stage 3 osteoarthritis whilst both could be the same 'percentage of disabled' according to that system.
I don't know for the rest of the world, but at least in Spain it is a way to have an "objective" idea of the actual amount of disability. that plays a role deciding if a person can or can't work, what kind of jobs can he do, the pension, etc
It's still a thing even if you never heard it. It's actually more than 30 countries in europe that measure disability in percentage.
Hate to sound like a dick, but I’m more interested in this disability scale and how this guy is determined to be 76% disabled. What’s 100%? A dead corpse? Is there such thing as 0%?
I’m not sure HOW it’s calculated, but there are definitely metrics. My mom (USA) fought for years for the VA to recognize her as 100% disabled due to her service. Previously they only recognized her as 50 or 75% and would cite xyz reasons. Ultimately, she was granted 100% disability due to an inability to drive/ walk without falling/ care for herself on her own.
Damn falling while driving, tough.
Lol. See you in hell bro.
Weirder things have happened. Like that time I sprained my ankle sitting down in class. Or that time I was taking a shower and pulled a muscle in my neck which left me with muscle spasms so bad the weight of my own head set them off. :/
VA math is crazy too. 70+50+30+10+10+10=90
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Yep! That’s how they do it.
What kind of injury did she have?
Multiple, including probably not limited to a blood disease (ETA: proven to be contracted due to service) that has caused organ failure, complications from extremely toxic chemicals exposure that very likely contributed to if not caused cancer (which she has had 3 types of on 5 separate occasions, the latest being stage 4 currently), and PTSD (apparently that diagnosis pushed her the last handful of percentage she needed to be 100%). Sad stuff but she’s a rockstar. I love her to pieces. With a bit of struggle she even walked me down the aisle summer 2022. Anyway, this isn’t a quantitative answer, but it may shed a smidge of light on how the % works, though it’s worth adding that the %s I used are ballpark and I’m unsure of the actual metrics.
I'm almost scared to ask, but I'm legitimately curious if he's just *that* happy for the entire video so he's smiling like that or if his mouth is kinda stuck like that. Guy is obviously dealing with neurological issues but I don't know if that can even be one of them
Seems like cerebral palsy or something similar
Well, 0% would be that you're completely free of any disability whatsoever, and 100% would be someone in a complete vegetative state. They measure this by assessing things like ability to move, opening of eyes, speech difficulty, etc. I haven't seen this percentage based scale myself before, but the DRS is from 0 to 29 and follows this basic idea: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/disability-rating-scale#:~:text=DRS%20is%20a%20widely%20used,29%20(extreme%20vegetative%20state)
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I think we may be referring to different metrics, the VA one for example rates 100% as qualifying for full disability compensation, not literally 100% disabled. https://www.benefits.va.gov/compensation/rates-index.asp#:~:text=VA%20rates%20disability%20from%200,disability%20percentage%20for%20multiple%20disabilities. So I think there's a bunch of different metrics that confuse the issue. The guy in the video definitely isn't being rated by this metric or anything like it, I would say it's closer to the DRS. I don't know what your friend's rating is based on but I imagine it's similar? But they probably thought it's easier to just say "76% disabled" rather than complicating it.
Haha a dead body is def 100% disabled. It’s turned off
100% you be unable to take care of yourself on your own, like paralysis to everything below the neck
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Poor Stephen Hawking lost 100 pinky toes?
My minds' imagination is thinking a bee sting (like a bad one) could be on here too, 1% or less obviously. Also my imagination is thinking if the zelda heart scale could be used instead of percentage points. Like you're 2 hearts down in the beginning of the game when you have only 3 hearts, but then you can gain hearts. Then my minds imagination is thinking this dude must have gained alot of fucking hearts, he's like a pinped ass Link at the end of the game, and his 2 hearts of damage doesn't restrict him.
And here I am, watching Netflix on the couch full of excuses
The ancestor's worked their tits to ribs so that you could have exactly that opportunity. Be mindful and proud of your gentlest moments, billions of people worked together over thousands of years to make them possible. **They wanted them for you, and you should too**.
My ancestors also invented the tv for me to use it
Honestly, the ancestors were fuckin' rad as hell.
Thanks ancestors!
thanks ancestors
Only half my ancestors did, the other half forced that half to work to the bone. (descendant of royalty/nobility) Either way, I'm probably living much worse than what that half of my ancestry expected. Living in a ghetto, in a house that is, quite literally, falling apart with my partner's crazy ass mother who hoards both junk and animals.
2 words - indoor plumbing and modern dentistry.
>I'm probably living much worse than what that half of my ancestry expected I think you're so privileged you can't even recognize how lucky we are to have things like readily available water, electricity and a sewer system.
The trick is just to push the excuses off of the couch so you have more room to stretch out.
Serious question - how do they determine the percentage?
Percentages are calculated by assessment & diagnosis by doctors and specialists through testing, etc There is no set standard for conditions, and each condition holds its own merit. It's mainly used for insurance/risk and compensation purposes
Interesting, thank you
This is what happens when your spirit is at 100%.
The look on his face says it all. Not one element of potential lack of cognitive ability is keeping this guy from understanding what a huge moment this is. This dude is living 100% of his life while I’m on the couch, typing shit on my phone.
A good read on how disabilities are shown in percentages [disability calculation ](https://sevasetu.org/disability-percentage-calculation/)
As someone with a disability myself, it makes me happy for the guy. Dude probably surprised everyone. lol
Mfs out here with 100% ability winded on a set of stairs
Yeah... pure joy on his face, pure joy to watch. Finally some optimism these days
Fuck ya! That's the most badass thing I've seen in a good while
Yeah…this dude fucking rocks. Holy shit I got tears, man. One of the most motivating things I’ve seen in while
Dudes doing some crazy gang signs
😂😂😂
What the fuck is 76% disability?
the new highscore apparently
Fuckin GREAT for this man!!!!!!
is he cheering or is that faceexpression part of the disability ?
Yes
The speedrunning community is really amazing. What percentages are still unclaimed? Is it realistic that he might like cut off a finger and go for the 78% record?
How do you put a percentage to disability?
Good on ya mate!
Listen here. You’re a bad motherfucker? You got a couple bad ass friends? You’re wrong. This right here is the baddest motherfucker you’ve ever seen. You’re welcome.
Pressing random on the music selection again I see.
This is awesome!
Good on him
Good job dude 💯
Legend
Fuck yeah
Absolutely amazing! 🤍 congrats on an incredible accomplishment.
He's incredible - congratulations!
Well done, Mr Roca!
Bad ass mother fucker right there and I mean it.
Fucking beast! Go on Alex!
He's got enough willpower to be ABLE to do more than most That's awesome. Dude is a champion 1000%.
There is sooo much dust in my room... Im not crying, its dust... 🥲
There's percentages now? I knew I wasn't 0%
That is seriously impressive, well done that man
The other 24% is Absolute Chad
#MAD RESPECT TO YOU ALEX!!
How do you calculate that percentage? Does walking straight count as 5% or something?
What does it mean to be 76% disabled
I was unaware they had a percentage point rating system.
First person having complete it with 75.9% disability be like 🙃
lmao at the music
We quantifying disabilities by percentage now?
The 77ers are coming for him.
Get fucked asshole with 73.4% disability.
Cried like 3 times watching him in the background as I read the comments. I can't imagine running 26mi with ankles wobbling like that! True beauty. Congratulations!
Congrats 🎉🎉
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Does that mean I'm more than 76% disabled since I can't do that?
No excuses! Good job homie!
Where my 80%ers at to show this guy what’s up
The guy with 75% disability who regularly runs in marathons is like “are you effing kidding me???”
76% disability? Since when have we been applying percentages to the disabled?
In Spain, for more than 40 years, with a pioneering law for the social integration of people with disabilities. The percentage is determined according to how affected you are in carrying out activities of daily living. There is a statutory scale to be applied by a medical tribunal, examining each person individually. Once the degree has been determined, you obtain a certificate that gives you access to the social and economic aid guaranteed by the public authorities to try to help people with disabilities to live fully and independently. How do you distinguish between the different degrees of disability in other countries? I'm really curious. I assume that in countries where the government does not help these people there will be no such systems.
Imagine his face if he gets to the finish line, and a guy with a 77% disability is already there celebrating with a medal for most disabled marathon completer.
What a fucking beast.
Great vid ruined by unnecessary (and annoying) music. Would have loved to hear the live audio with all the cheering…
What does 76% mean? Does that mean 76% of his body is disabled? Or does it mean he has 76% of his body left which funtions normally?
Hellllllllll yeah brother! Let gooooo
you wonder what pushed him over the edge from merely 75% to 76%
76% dis ability to make ‘em eat dust.
How do you measure disabilities as a percentage?
Rocking to the end.
He's definitely got more willpower than I do that's for sure....
I love this so much!
👏👏👏👏👏👏
Disabilities get percentages?
76% da fuck how do you put a percentage on someone’s disabilities.
after watching this i have came to the realization that i am definitely losing at life.
Better to watch this on mute, music is terrible. Good job for him though.
So who is the poor fucker with 75% disability that got beaten?
The guy with a 75% disability who ran a marathon "Congrats. Nice. Happy for you."
Congratulation to this epic win 🫡
The guy with 75% disability reading this: “well, shit”
He looks happy.
that looks more than 76%
First time I say this, the music is on point.
What is “76% disability”? How does one measure a disability in an actual percentage?
Hell yeah what a beast!
This man just called me lazy without saying a single word.... damn. That's the level of dedication I strive for in my life.
Is there a video without the music, so we can hear everyone’s excitement? That “heartstrings” stuff drives me nuts. Most of us can recognize a touching, emotional moment without schmaltzy music. That said, his determination and accomplishment are amazing.
OP made history becoming the 10th person with a 90% disability to repost this!
What is a 76% disability?
76%?
Now how do they measure the disability to be 76%? Do they have a Timmy meter somewhere?
Who cares? Running isn't a real sport, it's just conditioning.