Comments on: disability identified through the “boundedness of pain”

By: This Is The May Disability Blog Carnival « Same Difference

This Is The May Disability Blog Carnival « Same Difference — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:04:40 +0000

[...] BFP shares the moment she finally accepted her DisAbility in disability identified through the “boundedness of pain.” [...]

By: anon

anon — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 03:02:53 +0000

“can you follow me also in gathering together the many disability studies/disability rights cultural, social, political and still embodied understandings of disability as being more than the failure of the body? ”

Deaf people have been at this for a long time. We just don’t see ourselves as disabled in the sense of bodily failure. The difficulties we have deal with access — the dominant culture refuses to structure many things that would otherwise result in equal access for deaf and non deaf. That privilege, in ordering the world for the privilege, is where we see our issues, not the fact that we can’t hear.

By: Mamita Mala

Mamita Mala — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:30:55 +0000

I have to go and read WD’s post when my children aren’t quite so active so I can focus properly on it pero I’m already very thinking alot based on your reaction bfp. I’m thinking about my recent struggles to get my kids insured, what disability has meant in my own life in terms of my body and now my older daugher’s body and possibly poroto’s body. My mental heath in relation to disability and so much.

So thank you mujer.

So many thoughful things I am reading on this rainy mañana.

By: ander

ander — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 05:07:10 +0000

I wonder how much this mentality is perpetuated by lack of access to affordable healthcare for many people in the US. ‘Suck it up, deal with it’ is basically what the government gives you to work with if you’re poor and become sick or are injured.

By: disability identified through the “boundedness of pain « Raven’s Eye

disability identified through the “boundedness of pain « Raven’s Eye — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:07:42 +0000

[...] cross posted from flip flopping joy [...]

By: wheelchairdancer

wheelchairdancer — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:50:01 +0000

thank you, both of you, for the series and your generous loving responses. I know we’ll be connecting again and again on our separate but intertwined journeys.

WCD

By: jess

jess — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:45:21 +0000

Wow — WD’s post is so layered, substantial, and moving. I highly encourage everyone to click over there and give it a slow, thoughtful read.

By: Renee

Renee — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:49:44 +0000

why so many people of color [ME] refuse to name our experience with disability as “disabled”)

This is something I am really going to have to think about. For the longest time I had certain ideas of what it meant to be differently abled and then when it affected me, I found that claiming that identity was extremely difficult. I do not know how much culture had to play with it versus the fact that I was desperate to hold on to my abelist privilege. I am still in the beginning of owning this identity and accepting it so there is much anger and resentment I must work through.