Sarah Supple wrote:
> 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 experinces associated with beign disabled were suppressed.
I don't know if it's suppression. Non-disabled people are often not really
comfortable talking about it when they just met you. I talk about it quite
regularly with my friends, but after a while you've covered most of it and it
becomes boring, even for me ;)
However, it is certainly true that there has to be some level of confidence.
But that's not only the case with disabilities, most people don't start
chatting about their deepest feelings either without a certain level of mutual
trust.
To be honest, after reading some literature I almost get the feeling that
disabled people with a good sense of humour are being looked upon as people
who are hiding their real identity behind a thick layer of optimism.
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