<Dear Liz, I was interested in your comments about how people are silenced.
Some research I did showed that the participants felt they could only talk
about their disabilities in certain ways, one of them being in humour and
that the negative experiences associated with beign disabled were suppressed.
I would be interested in hearing your thoughts on this or would be keen to
know if you have come across any other research or papers that have dealt
with this, Thanks, Sarah supple.>
Hi Sarah, have you read the article by, Mark Rapley, Patrick Kieran and
Charles Antake called Invisible to Themselves or Negotiating Identity? The
Interactional Management of 'Being Intellectually Disabled' which is printed
in Disability and Society. Vol 13. No 5 (1998) (I happen to have an old
copy). I hope I have typed the reference correctly, because I have a visual
perception situation, so might mis type!
The article explores the issue of parents bringing up their children in
ignorance of their impairment and the personal, social and political
consequences of this. There is also references from Goffman in relation to
stigma and the concealed identity. To deny someone their politicised
'disabled' identity, I think is so wrong.
This is what I meant by disabled people not being allowed to be their true
selves and embrace a 'positive disabled' identity,
I was not referring to disabled people not being allowed to talk about the
'negative' experiences, which is what Glen and Tom wrongly picked up from my
email.
Liz
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