Nope. I'm busy enough trying to convince the average moron that my particular disability is not, in fact, life threatening--to theirs or mine. I'm sure I'd be just as busy for different reasons if I had some other disability.

I'm sighted (my 7 year old is legally blind with a prognosis of no usable vision by age 18). Before he was diagnosed, I thought that blindness would be an extremely hard disability to have. Now that I have a visually impaired child, and have seen what so many of his blind mentors have accomplished, I'm not scared of him losing his vision at all. I see that you truly can be just about anything (save a fighter pilot) even without sight.

I guess because people are categorised as disabled for administrative purposes such as disabled car parking or bathrooms, etc, comparisons are inevitable. I have found myself occasionally thinking 'I'm glad I'm only blind'.

I find for my clients, it matters how well they've adjusted to their vision loss. For many clients who are still dealing with it, I've heard them say stuff like "I wish I was deaf instead" or something like that.

However, I think it also matters what someone has going on. Statistically, most of the people with vision loss are elderly, which can have a lot of comorbidity (multiple conditions at once). I had a client who was legally blind, paralyzed on one side of the body, crippling pain due to a spinal cord injury, and aphasia due to a stroke (he couldn't talk, he could only use yes/no. He was capable of understanding speech, but unable to speak more than yes or no). His vision loss was not his major concern (he could still read large print), his primary concern was getting an electric wheelchair to travel around (it took him two years to get a chair and he could finally leave his apartment building).

I'm hard of hearing, not blind, but I do sometimes imagine what it's like to have other disabilities and how I would handle it in daily life. Not really "comparing" but just putting myself in someone else's shoes I guess.

Nope.

This has never occurred to me. Anyone with a disability has their challenges to overcome, and those challenges are typically highly variable and thus I'm left never comparing myself to other people with disabilities.

No?

What is the use or purpose of that thinking anyway? I wonder what it is theoretically like to be deaf sometime to try to understand but I don’t wish to be deaf or what if we swap.

I don’t find that type of thing useful. I mostly use it if I have to help someone, but yeah, I don’t on a regular basis. I have enough to think about. I think a lot. Hahaha!

Not really, but I was born with a vision impairment and don’t really have a conception of what being able-bodied feels like.

Well Stephen Hawking wasn’t just paralyzed, he was completely immobile. None of his muscles worked, he couldn’t even smile.