It is interesting to note that the Greek god Hephaestus was disabled.  According to myth, the god’s feet were damaged when he was thrown from Mount Olympus, the home of the Gods.  Hephaestus appears as a lonely individual in Greek stories, with his beautiful wife Aphrodite and the other gods often mocking him.  In the Odyssey, Hephaestus grieves, “No one is responsible for the fact that I am defective except my own parents, and I wish they had never given birth to me.”21