[The graphic consists of a bingo card with the words “But You Don’t Look Disabled!†at the top. The card consists of five rows of five boxes each. The text in each row consists of the following, from left to…
Read MoreYesterday was National Coming Out Day. I officially came out as bisexual, and it was a celebration. No angst. No fear. No second thoughts. Just a celebration. It was a such a contrast with coming out as disabled at the…
Read MoreOne of the ways in which I navigate the cacaphony of competing discourses about disability, mental health, and just about everything else is to remind myself that we humans are always storytelling and that these discourses are just a series…
Read MoreThe economy has been crippled by dept. You’d have to be insane to want to invade Syria. They’re just blind to the suffering of other people. Only a moron would believe that. Disability metaphors abound in our culture, and they…
Read MoreI’ve been having a conversation with my friend Julie Rose. Julie has just been diagnosed with Lupus and has become visibly disabled. In response to my piece about disabled people as help objects, she wrote to me and said that…
Read MoreI’ve updated this post after receiving an email and a comment from Grant Barrett, the Marketing Manager at the San Diego Museum of Man. Apparently, the disability exhibit is on the first floor and is fully accessible; moreover, the city…
Read MoreJust a few days ago, I wrote a post about what a blessed relief it is have my cane as a visible marker of disability. After living my whole life with invisible disabilities, I am enjoying the fact that my…
Read More(April 26, 2013, Albatross University) — In a dramatic new breakthrough, researchers have concluded that autism is caused by being alive. “This is a great day for medical science,” said Dr. Ernest Eagerly, Director of the Department for the Medicalization…
Read MoreMost people in the disability community know Amanda Baggs as a blogger, a disability rights activist, and the creator of the powerful video, In My Language. I first came to know Amanda in all those ways as well. Then she…
Read MoreI’ve started compiling a list of all of the studies that link autism to… well, everything. I tend to find most of these studies unconvincing, to put it mildly, and when I look at them in list form, I have…
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