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Conceptualizing disability
Amanda flags a great post by Anne C at Existence is Wonderful, which catalogues “three different ways of looking at autism — in terms of neurological structure, in terms of lived experience, and in...
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This post was originally posted on March 19, 2009 at Hoyden About Town. New Scientist this week published an interview with infamous psychiatrist Simon Wessely. Wessely persists in believing, in the...
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Depending on narcotics
I take six medications. Five of them — the antiepileptic, the antidepressant, the non-narcotic pain killer, the muscle relaxer, and the oral contraceptive — are covered through a mail-order service. I...
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Disability Is …?
(Originally posted July 2009 at Feministe, three rivers fog.) We had a really good discussion about nondisability. It got derailed, a bit, because it depended on our ability to reasonably define...
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