Just wondering, but why is the only "disability" discussion at DU under "health"?

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Shouldn't there be one under "Activism" as well? Or an entire category for discussion, all on its own?

"Disability" is a community as well as a "condition," a political consciousness as well as a state of being. Groups such as ADAPT, the NFB, the NAD, NCIL, MindFreedom, these are all POLITICAL activist groups, not "health" groups in the sense of support groups or whatever.

I raise this especially after the past week, when "mental illness" and people with Asperger's became huge topics in relation to the Newtown atrocity, and far too many DUers seemed to buy into the common stereotypes about both.

I'm sick of the mainstream media placing anything to do with disability rights under "health"--just like feminist issues used to invariably be filed--if at all--under "Home and Garden." So having a progressive Democratic forum do the same seems, to me at least, rather retrograde.

Thoughts on this, anyone?