Funny you could argue that "disabled" is language that distances us from reality. Since describing someone not present as just "disabled" doesn't tell you anything whether that person in reality is able to do one specific thing, eg tedious react frontend development in a large organization. "differently abled" doesn't tell you anything more but clearly signals that "more information is needed".
It does tell us many things, you're being obtuse on purpose. If someone is disabled you know they generally suffer from some health issue which is serious enough and probably chronic, to afford them that status by the state.
Among this umbrella you have many common things like, they can probably park closer to doors, if they are disabled. I'm not sure why people just pretend things are not how they are when discussing these subjects. Of course we have more information than less.
Yes if you are blind you have a disability, as per almost every developed country's rules. My mom isn't even fully blind and pays less tax due to her disability status, she is officially disabled.
Regarding parking closer to doors, I said "probably" and that was literally to illustrate that there is an umbrella that covers most cases even if there's edge cases. Obviously there are people with disabilities that don't even allow them to leave their bed so they can't drive. I think the most accurate part of my previous comment was about you being intentionally obtuse.
I don't know if you misinterpreted but I meant that "disabled" doesn't tell you everything about a persons ableness across all functions that a human can do. Eg. one disabled person is able to drive a car, and this other disabled person (your mom, sorry I had to do this) can't.
This is obvious ofc but my comment was about the OP stating that OMGWOKENESS, eg. saying "differently abled" is a language/semantic excercise that somehow takes us further away from reality and therefore is worse than using the traditional "disabled". In other words, using "differently abled" (with regard to the normal functions a human is able to do) doesn't hide any reality that "disabled" shows. IMHO.
Edit: Disclaimer: I haven't watched Carlin in a long time, didn't rewatch this bit now either so I'm arguing from my "I love him but sometimes he's a dick and othertimes he's wrong" view of him.
Always reminds me of the George Carlin bit on language euphemisms used to distance us from reality (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuEQixrBKCc).