To all
Firstly, I am a supporter of the social model but I am experiencing a bit of
confusion that I am trying to clear away and would like some help.
If, in the disability/impairment dualism, disability is seen as social
oppression and impairment as the physical facticity of *the condition* what
if I have never experienced discrimination? , does that mean I am not
disabled? Is it just an problem for epistemology - a question of knowing?
It is obvious the medically I have a condition - cerebral palsy yet I have
never to my *knowledge* experienced discrimination. In this case the social
model has no safety net with which to restore my ontological security as a
disabled person - so without indulging in "false group consciousness"
similiar to Marx's false class
consciousness in which I put not stock what am I?
Thank you for your time.
Michael
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