Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Just A Thought

After reading Rosemarie Garlan-Thomason's " Intergating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory" a couple thoughts came across my mind: People without disabilities often misconceive relations with people with disabilities, who by definition are uncommonly limited in interacting with some aspects of the social environment, by drawing analogies from the standard amount of ways of relating. There is, moreover, a strong tendency to invoke inappropriate analogies. For instance, if a nondisabled person provides a physically limited adult with corporeal help similar to what a baby needs, there is an understandable but injurious temptation on the part of the help giver to conduct this interchange in the manner adults relate to children...interesting.

1 comment:

sankofa said...

This is interesting. Another thought...have we ever taken the time to ask or is it even considered on an individual bases and not just generalized as being the disable vs. the nondisabled?