![]() ![]() This misrepresents or erases the voices of real, living individuals that do not classify neatly as “normal.” Rather than examining assumptions that distinguish normal and abnormal, the dominant American cultural narrative stigmatizes some individuals as abnormal in an otherwise normal world. It is also so widely accepted as to be commonplace. ![]() ![]() Americans think, talk and write about disability, they usually consider it as a tragedy, illness or defect … that is as personal and accidental, before or without sociopolitical significance (2). Wilson and Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson write in Disability, Rhetoric and the Body, The tendency to flatten the lived experiences of people with disabilities is well known. Popular culture flattens the lives of disabled people beyond caricature, reducing the complexity of lived existence to a simplistic narrative that either wallows in pain and exploitation or relies on sports cliches of odds-defiance and triumph in the face of adversity. ![]()
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