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When the ADA was first enacted, HIV was considered an inherently life-threatening illness that would lead to the impairment/incapacitation of most, if not all, of those infected. Within that context, legal protections for those with HIV were seen to be clear and impeachable.
However, over time, as HIV began to be considered a more chronic manageable disease, there were a number of legal challenges as to whether HIV should, in and of itself, be considered a disability if the person remains symptom-free and otherwise unimpaired.

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The word autism first took its modern sense in 1938 when Hans Asperger of the Vienna University Hospital adopted Bleuler's terminology autistic psychopaths in a lecture in German about child psychology. Asperger was investigating an ASD now known as Asperger syndrome, though for various reasons it was not widely recognized as a separate diagnosis until 1981

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PTSD has been traced back to the World War II, however it is a fairly new diagnosis given by the Department of Veteran Affairs.

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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the first president with a disability, a great advocate for the rehabilitation of people with disabilities, but still operated under the notion that a disability was an abnormal, shameful condition, and should be medically cured or fixed.

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In the 1940s and 1950s, disabled World War II veterans placed increasing pressure on government to provide them with rehabilitation and vocational training. World War II veterans made disability issues more visible to a country of thankful citizens who were concerned for the long-term welfare of young men who sacrificed their lives to secure the safety of the United States

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Cold Injuries and the long term after effects

Hearing Loss

Mesothelioma Cancer for Navy Veterans

Radiation Exposure

Tinnitus (ringing or chirping in your ears)

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World War Era: Early 20th Century through 1950's

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World War Era: Early 20th Century through 1950's

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Spread from England to America, in which people united to satirize deformity instead of hiding it. (A double amputee climbing on to a chair, descending from a chair and moving, photogravure after Eadweard Muybridge (1887))

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Charitable organizations and special schools for disabled people were established. A blind academic, statesman and postmaster-general who campaigned for public open spaces.

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Following the 1834 Poor Law Act, 350 new workhouses were built, one within roughly every 20 miles. Earlier workhouses had housed the destitute disabled of the local parish, and their buildings were of a more humane design

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The Industrial Era/Late Modern Period: The 18/19th Century

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The Industrial Era/Late Modern Period: The 18/19th Century

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Instructed the court that 'lunatics be freely committed to their best and nearest friends that can receive no benefit by their death.' The care of the mentally ill was essentially a domestic matter and on the whole, it seems that people were not exploited by the system.

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Laws were passed labeling disabled persons as the "helpless poor."

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Ancient through Renaissance: 17th Century

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Ancient through Renaissance: 17th Century

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Men and Women alike were thought to lack in education or have a mental disability.