Status Updates From Disability and Passing: Blu...

"In fact, the ability to pass as sane does not depend on a singular set of criteria for sanity. Rather, passing as sane requires that a person refrain from breaking the social norms regarding other aspects of that individual’s identity; one’s sanity falls into question if one does not act appropriately for one’s gender, race, class, sexuality, religion, and so on." - Peta Cox

"Individuals may “perform” disability to adjust or control how observers react to them in certain situations." - Dea H. Boster "THIIIIISSSSSS" - Renée Yoxon

"Disability is everywhere in history, once you begin looking for it, but conspicuously absent in the histories we write." - Douglas Baynton

This book is a wild ride that speaks to the very depths of my soul.

In this chapter the author shares how slaves would use various fits of epilepsy, disfigurement either perpetrated or self inflicted to "pass" as disabled and possibly find freedom.

The lines of disability and how people "pass" for being normal is eye opening. There are so many levels to this conspiracy!

Insightful and powerful anthology on a the variety of ways disabled individuals try and pass for normal in our society. The author expounds so that one can comprehend the depth of desire to "fit-in" and help people forget about their unique needs.