Margo
The social model was never intend to explain pain and medical construct.
However, if you are looking for models that deal with those issues may I
suggest a literature search in medical sociology ?
Maria
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From: "Margo Milne" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2008 8:03 AM
Subject: Re: Neurodiversity, neurological disability and the public sector:
notes on the autism spectrum
> Well, when you come up with a philosophical construct that deals
> adequately
> with the "common sense notions" of pain and fatigue that many of us have
> to
> deal with every day, let me know. Until then, I'll continue to argue that
> the social model, as it currently stands, is inadequate for describing the
> experience of many disabled people, and that the personal effects of
> impairments must be considered as part of the causes of disability.
>
> Margo
>
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> Subject: Re: Neurodiversity, neurological disability and the public
> sector:
> notes on the autism spectrum
>
> In the end I suppose it comes down to personal attribution style as much
> as
> anything, but I would
> prefer that impairment were struck from the language as a somewhat
> untranslatable concept and
> replaced with something like sub optimal adaptation, or negatively nuanced
> difference.
>
> It gets ridiculous to me really to put comparitors in, because there are
> things that I can't do and
> will never do, simply because it is not in the parameters of my embodied
> existence to have that
> capacity, however it only becomes a problem by comparison, and if you did
> not have the faculty of
> mind that allows comparison, then you would not be able to express your
> disability or impairment in
> the terms you do.
>
> My particular neurological set up seems to be optimised for philosophical
> speculation and the
> rejection of straigtforward "common sense" folk pyschology of things, I am
> rather glad it is because
> it allows of this kind of mental gymnastics to counter such common sence
> notions as pain and
> limitation, not that I am totally an android (heavens above I feela lot
> more human than I suppose
> Stephen Pinker and Richard Dawkins to be) and don't feel human limitations
> from time to time and get
> a little down about it. Now where did I put those trees?
>
> Well life would certainly be no fun if I did not think the way I do.
>
> Larry
>
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