By Guest on 14 December, 2010
Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg is a wife, mother, writer, editor, artist, photographer, and leader of the Vermont Chapter of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN). She blogs at Journeys with Autism, and her latest book, The Uncharted Path: My Journey with Late-Diagnosed Autism, was published in July of 2010. Her last guest post for FWD was “I [...]
Posted in guest post | Tagged autism, autistic, dominant narratives, guest post, Jewish, myths and misconceptions, religion, stereotypes, stereotyping
By s.e. smith on 20 April, 2010
He got through school, he has a good job and he married. That’s probably the biggest concern of Tourette’s sufferers and their relatives: Will their life be normal? This quote comes from Anne Miller’s Washington Post piece, ‘‘American Idol’ segment helps push Tourette’s Syndrome into cultural mainstream,’ which I mentioned in ‘Whose Voices?‘ There’s a [...]
Posted in normality, othering, social attitudes | Tagged dominant narratives, normal is only one option
By s.e. smith on 19 April, 2010
There seems to be a bit of a theme these days of nondisabled people writing about the disabled people in their lives for the mainstream media. We had Sue Blackmore writing about her daughter Emily, who has anorexia, and Anne Miller writing about her husband, Michael Davoli, for example, and I’m sure there were countless [...]
Posted in i'm right here, identity, media and pop culture, othering, representations, social attitudes | Tagged advocacy, dominant narratives, self-advocacy
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