A particular disabled person may often have both visible and invisible disabilities.
This dichotomy may result in less funding and care for invisible disabilities.
Because dyslexia is an invisible disability, many people do not understand the challenges that dyslexics face daily.
It seems that companies would rather risk paying fines than accodmmodate the 24 million Americans with this invisible disability.
Mental illness is an invisible disability so many places, but not at work, where the emphasis is on social interaction.
There are several ideologies which play into how people with invisible disabilities are treated.
Each model is essential to understanding the discrimination of and treatment of people with invisible disabilities.
However, an individual with an invisible disability such as chronic or debilitating fatigue would not want to disclose their particular impairment.
About 10% of Americans have a medical condition which could be considered an invisible disability.
"Everyone knows a blind person can keep a dog, but so can someone with chronic depression or an invisible disability," she said.