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Michael, When you say you have never experienced discrimination, that is great. But how about being treated differently, even if it did not cause you a negative outcome? Does that not count as a type of oppression or inferior treatment? Thomas Hamlett MS, CRC Life Quality Assessment Coordinator Life Quality Assessment Project Developmental Disabilities Area Board X -----Original Message----- From: Michael Peckitt <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 10:31 AM Subject: Social Model Question What am I? >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 > > >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%