What's the difference betwen being handicapped and being disabled?

I'll try to explain it to you the way I understand it and as I remember. I think its similar for the fact that the person has an impairment. Its difference is Disability itself is an inability to perform an activity in a manner or range considered normal for that individual as a result of impairment. Handicap is more of social disadvantage (societal limitations, like inability to return to work because of no modification of the environment: e.g no ramp, no hadrails, no grab bars). In fact it is defined by ICIDH a term used to describe the social disadvantage that results from disability or impairment. that's all, thank you =)

I may be normal and is thus without any disability yet, I can be handicapped in a lot of things. If I don't have a capability to do carpentry work, that is my handicap. No one can count on me to do anything akin to carpentry. However, when handicap is used to describe what an abnormal person cannot do, we connote it as synonymous to a disability. Like the handicap of a man with polio is he cannot walk like a normal one does. A disabled person is one who has got something wrong about his body. He/she is not perfectly normal. Now, these persons prefer that they are called differently abled. Because, they do a lot of things outside of their disabilities. Also, there are those who have in some ways, done something to overcome their disabilities. The easiest way to demonstrate this will be those persons who are either blind from birth or who got blind due to an accident or illness. They resort to learning braille, so they can read. They can still operate the computer through learning how to ably operate a computer, and then touch type. They will have someone though to take a peep from time to time to see if they are doing right. Then they make use of the features of the computer to aid them in their work.

I am disabile, I am on a wheelchair, the anticappato term, by now do not use more, are offensive.

Handicapped is inborn while disabled is when a person who used to be complete and normal ion his body parts, and this part was taken away or cut off from the body due to accident or serious illness

disability is a condition or function judged to be significantly impaired realtive to the usual standard of an individual or their group. the term is often used to refer to individual functioning, including physical impairment,sendory impairment, cognitive impairment,intelectual impairment or mental health issue. While for handicap, it is a physical, mental, or emotional condition that interferes with one's normal functioning.handicap may be physical,or mental defect, congenital or acquired, preventing or restricting a person from participating in a normal life or limiting their capacity to work. I hope i answered your question very well. Handicap is also used in sports and it is not a disadvantage. Do good!