What things count as a disability?

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Under the Human Rights Act ‘disability’ covers many things, including:
• physical or psychiatric (mental) illness
• physical, or intellectual or psychological disability or impairment, like a learning or neurological disability
• loss or abnormality of psychological, physiological, or anatomical structure or function
• being reliant on a guide dog, wheelchair, or other remedial means
• having organisms in your body that can cause illness, like being HIV-positive.
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