G’s Reviews > Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century > Status Update

“Some days it may feel like your body belongs to everyone *but* you. Many disability advocates talk about developing actual dissociation skills at the doctor’s office because the objectification can be so traumatizing. And when you do exert control over your own body, you are labeled as difficult, as noncompliant.”
Rebecca Cokley

“I am refusing to tell a story of single-handed success in which I valiantly overcame my disability. I want to tell a story that is more complex and true. It’s a story about how my disability is always present and painful. A story about how my privilege is often the only thing that allows me to succeed in an ableist world. And it is absolutely a story about disabled interdependence.”
A.H. Reaume