Originally posted October 16, 2012 for Ekso Bionics. When you first acquire a disability, it’s just not possible to imagine adopting the identity of disability with pride. In the beginning, identifying with disability at all is deeply infused with stigma. In the beginning there is only loss. There is nothing to take pride in, only the deeply uncertain mire of coping with a primal sense of trauma, and a vision of the future that has gone dark....