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It also fits better into the social model of disability, which I find very valuable, and assigns agency to the disabling where it belongs. Ex: I don't experien
by giraffe_lady 5y ago
It also fits better into the social model of disability, which I find very valuable, and assigns agency to the disabling where it belongs.
Ex: I don't experience my poor vision as a disability right now, because I'm easily able to access an aid that allows me to do everything I want to with no major downsides, in the form of glasses.
But if I were to become direly impoverished and lose access to them (again lol), I would be disabled by that circumstance. My physical state has stayed the same. The disability is in what I can't access and why, not the impairment itself, which can be addressed.