I have some art historical sources that may be of use.

I'm not certain how much of a disability either [cleft lip/cleft palette] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleft_lip_and_palate) or [dwarfism] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarfism) is considered these days, but folks with these conditions in various places in the past were definitely considered special, sometimes even holy.

Cleft lip/palette has a relatively high incidence in Native America, and shows up a lot in art from the royal [Moche court of Peru] (http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/6947). I'm trained as a Native Americanist, but of art and history above the Mexican border. However, when I've worked with South Americanists, I've been continually told that people with cleft lip/palette were viewed by the Moche and Lambayeque as [medicine people] (http://blogs.lt.vt.edu/emmgarey/2012/03/12/a-different-view/). My understanding for the reasoning behind this was that the deformity associated those people with Jaguar (since cats also have a kind of cleft lip), and thus closer to the supernatural powers of the cosmos; that train of thought is further discussed on p. 450 of [this] (https://books.google.com/books?id=hxqgDcCrzjkC&pg=PA450&lpg=PA450&dq=moche+shaman+harelip&source=bl&ots=rnf-YfsOQz&sig=UqQEoW4b11GDG-O7H7wvvi2_at4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDsQ6AEwBWoVChMI2rOmoe-NyAIVwgySCh3kZA_6#v=onepage&q=moche%20shaman%20harelip&f=false) volume.

Anyway, [here] (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16799904) is an article about the depiction of people with cleft lip/palette specifically among the Moche and Lambayeque cultures. [Here] (http://allenpress.com/publications/pr/CPCJ49_2) is another article about depictions of the condition in a number of different cultures. [Here] (http://www.pubfacts.com/detail/20213832/Ancient-representation-of-Meiges-syndrome-in-the-Moche-culture-in-the-pre-Columbian-Peru.) are a handful of other articles about the Moche depicting facial paralysis and other conditions. I haven't read [this book] (http://www.amazon.com/The-Jaguar-Within-Shamanic-Pre-Columbian/dp/0292726260), but it is part of the Linda Schele Series (and that speaks highly of it), and I wonder if it wouldn't useful to you in this exploration?

With regard to dwarfism, [here] (www.precolumbia.org/pari/publications/RT06/Miller1985.pdf) is an article about attitudes towards dwarfs among the Maya. I know a few examples of European art that depict court dwarves, but - to be honest, I don't feel like I know enough of European attitudes towards these folks to know if they were being looked upon as objects of amusement, or if they felt these people we special in a spiritual sense like many Native American cultures appear to have done. Anyway, [here] (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:People_with_dwarfism_in_art) is a Wiki list of numerous different depictions of people with dwarfism, and [another] (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Disabled_people_in_art) about depictions of disabled people in art more generally; they include some ancient examples from Greece. [Here's] (http://www.pbs.org/pov/nobiggerthanaminute/special_overview.php) an articles about royal Spanish court painter Velazquez' depictions of court dwarfs.

If you'll allow some time frame flexibility (which I think your remark about "going into religion" might suggest?), I recently answered a similar question with respect to medieval Europe.

Some of the books I've read have claimed that people unable to walk were often, if not left to beg that is, put to such tasks as weaving/sewing or going into religion or becoming scribes...

So, as a woman in the medieval world, you would be very unlikely to work as a scribe if you were disabled. It's true that some medieval nuns were actually very impressive scribes (and a handful of lay women towards the end of the Middle Ages as well). However, there was quite a bit of stigma against people with disabilities joining religious life at that time. If you father had enough money and political standing, you might get away with it anyway, but that would be very unlikely.

Later on in the Middle Ages, there were some quasi-monastic groups of lay women living in religious community with each other. You might have been able to find a place with them, depending on the group. But more likely, they'd be running a hospital (basically a shelter for the indigent) where you might live if your family couldn't take care of you.

On the other hand, if you could convince your confessor and the people around you that your disability was actually a sign of holiness in some way, you could gain a wild public reputation as a living saint, have visions of Jesus and Mary, and maybe even get beautified or canonized by the pope after your death. So, there was that.

(Also, all that assumes you would be Christian. I don't know of any research on medieval disabled Jewish women or Muslim women in Europe.)