Category Three (Regarded as a Person with a Disability): Group 2
The second group includes people whose impairments are substantially limiting solely because of other people's attitudes toward their impairments.
For example, suppose a customer has a medical condition that disfigures his facial features, but that does not affect his physical functioning. Because of this disfiguring condition, he is regularly subjected to teasing and harassment on the street, and an employer has refused to hire him for a job that requires public contact because "you'd scare away the customers." This customer's impairment substantially limits his major life activities, but only because of the attitudes of others. He is therefore protected under Federal disability nondiscrimination law, including Section 504.
