![]() ![]() ![]() I can’t ever not be disabled, and I can’t ever present to another person as not disabled. Maybe you can follow that logic or be empathetic as to why I had that logic, but the problem with that is that I can’t pretend I’m not disabled. I don’t want to amplify that lens, so I’m not going to talk about it. ![]() And that’s how I thought for most of my life. If that’s the lens that other people use to reduce me or dehumanize me, using the disability lens to assign the wrong category to me or to assign pity to me when I don’t need to be pitied, or whatever they’re thinking-if that’s a lens that I’m seen through, then I don’t want to amplify it. The biggest thing for me was is the perceptual shift around talking about disability. Chloé Cooper Jones: If you spend 288 pages with me in this book, my hope is that because you’re so accosted by it, by all these people being wrong all the time, all these perceptual shifts, it builds a permission in the mind of the reader to look for those moments in their own lives and not be afraid of them or immediately assign a negative valence to them. ![]()
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