One of my daughters walks with braces and crutches, and she identifies herself as a person with a disability fairly readily. She had never heard the word. But Anthony Tussler remembers it well.
Names change as the times change.
Kate Gaynor has cerebral palsy. Disability pushes hard on what we think identity means, and when our language describing people with disabilities changes, there's a reason. Sometimes more than one reason. You can construct an interesting history of attitudes toward disability by looking at the words that people use. You can still hear the word today, but people with disabilities often really dislike being described as afflicted with this or that because it implies a perpetually wounded state, and maybe you feel good and spry most of the time.