What is the difference between " Disabled " and " Different abled" Disabled means "you have nothing" Different abled means "you have everything" STEPHEN HAWKING is one of the greatest scientist of his time he is suffering from paralysis but we can not say that he is disabled he is " different abled " he has everything Stephen Hawking was paralysis but he is a great scientist in his time he was not " disabled " he was " different abled"