Disability related links
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untonugganMy Only Carriage: On Naming a Nameless Disability via The Toast
"I knew, in other words, that something had gone wrong in his body and he was working very hard to make his body look normal. I knew this because I was also standing with my actual knees actually locked. I knew this because I was afraid that I wouldn’t be able to stand up or still or straight."
Sick Woman Theory (long but worth the read)
"So, as I lay there, unable to march, hold up a sign, shout a slogan that would be heard, or be visible in any traditional capacity as a political being, the central question of Sick Woman Theory formed: How do you throw a brick through the window of a bank if you can’t get out of bed?"
My Disability IS My Excuse viaumadoshi
'There’s one kind of disabled person that the abled world really likes: The disabled athlete. The disabled athlete pushed boundaries, “overcomes disability”, and is often used as inspiration porn for the abled. “What’s your excuse?” they superimpose over a picture of an attractive young woman with a single lower leg prosthetic.'
Book recommendation : Far From the Tree: Parents, children and the search for identity by Andrew Solomon
(link is to excerpt)
I have not read all of this book. I got it from the library and read 200 pages when I got home, and then it was too emotionally raw to come back to any time soon before my brain fog kicked in again.
The book is by a gay man with quite a bit of privilege (which he's aware of) about the ways parents relate to children who are different from them. It's not a book purely about the struggles of parents with their [difficult child with X issue]. It's about how families relate with each other and how identity is formed. Probably it is the kind of book that makes no one completely happy, because he interviews people with very different views on how to deal with what he calls "vertical identities" (i.e. ones that place children apart from their parents) and they have very different ways of coping with them.
Some of the chapters in the book include Deaf, Autism, Little People, Child Prodigies, and Children of Rape. I only got through two chapters, and while they were not identities that I myself am a member of, it seemed that he was very respectful of the communities and did not go for shock humor.
Part of what was raw and hard about the book is finding out how many children with disabilities are in the foster system, or the kinds of crap doctors tell parents when they give birth to a child who is a Little Person, or about the history of oralism in the Deaf community. However, there is some really good and insightful stuff too and if you are up for an emotionally bumpy read I think it is a good book (even though I am sure there must be some problematic bits. For example, the book's main website is totally not screen reader accessible which lolnope.)
"I knew, in other words, that something had gone wrong in his body and he was working very hard to make his body look normal. I knew this because I was also standing with my actual knees actually locked. I knew this because I was afraid that I wouldn’t be able to stand up or still or straight."
Sick Woman Theory (long but worth the read)
"So, as I lay there, unable to march, hold up a sign, shout a slogan that would be heard, or be visible in any traditional capacity as a political being, the central question of Sick Woman Theory formed: How do you throw a brick through the window of a bank if you can’t get out of bed?"
My Disability IS My Excuse via
umadoshi 'There’s one kind of disabled person that the abled world really likes: The disabled athlete. The disabled athlete pushed boundaries, “overcomes disability”, and is often used as inspiration porn for the abled. “What’s your excuse?” they superimpose over a picture of an attractive young woman with a single lower leg prosthetic.'
Book recommendation : Far From the Tree: Parents, children and the search for identity by Andrew Solomon
(link is to excerpt)
I have not read all of this book. I got it from the library and read 200 pages when I got home, and then it was too emotionally raw to come back to any time soon before my brain fog kicked in again.
The book is by a gay man with quite a bit of privilege (which he's aware of) about the ways parents relate to children who are different from them. It's not a book purely about the struggles of parents with their [difficult child with X issue]. It's about how families relate with each other and how identity is formed. Probably it is the kind of book that makes no one completely happy, because he interviews people with very different views on how to deal with what he calls "vertical identities" (i.e. ones that place children apart from their parents) and they have very different ways of coping with them.
Some of the chapters in the book include Deaf, Autism, Little People, Child Prodigies, and Children of Rape. I only got through two chapters, and while they were not identities that I myself am a member of, it seemed that he was very respectful of the communities and did not go for shock humor.
Part of what was raw and hard about the book is finding out how many children with disabilities are in the foster system, or the kinds of crap doctors tell parents when they give birth to a child who is a Little Person, or about the history of oralism in the Deaf community. However, there is some really good and insightful stuff too and if you are up for an emotionally bumpy read I think it is a good book (even though I am sure there must be some problematic bits. For example, the book's main website is totally not screen reader accessible which lolnope.)
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