\u201cdisadvantage or restriction of activity caused by a contemporary social organization which takes no or little account for people who have physical and or cognitive intellectual impairments and thus excludes them from mainstream society.\u201d (Eli Pp.6) This really hit home for me as I recently have been once again comparing my own \u201ccognitive disability\u201d to a system not made for cognitive diversity. One that questioned why I should be given different tools in school than others. Teachers assumed I didn\u2019t prepare or study. I am not unable or helpless, you are just trying to force a system not made for my learning on to me. I can answer the question you are asking, but I can also do so much more than answer the question once I understand it. I can apply and remember things in ways that confuse me. I can see pictures and worlds within my mind, but your previous system finds me incapable because I can\u2019t do it in the constrictions you believe to be a judgment of intellect and ability.<\/p>\n
This piece really enabled me to connect to how others might think or feel when it comes to subjugation. I think about in Loving In The War Years, <\/i>Moraga purposefully and unapologetically writes in a way that is just wholly herself. She did not write in a way that is a \u201cnormal AP standard\u201d. This was her breaking from the system. It made me think about what my writing or art or studies could look like if I explored them outside of the ideals of what people expect from me. Moraga\u2019s usage of mixed language and a journal-like set up led me to thinking about what my personal, physical writing would look like outside of the standard writing expectation. What would writing or poetry look like if it was made just for me? I would play with punctuation like an artist, spacing would seem random and unusual, my thoughts would be like a cloud connected by parenthesis because all of the ideas are connected and tied in my mind, and it would be a mess, but not to me. I never thought about what my own writing would look like in my \u201clanguage\u201d. I\u2019m not trying to insinuate that I am in any way better than anyone else. I\u2019m trying to explain that everyone can do something someone else can\u2019t in a way that works for them, so why are we all trying to do things in a way that work best for one group of people.<\/p>\n
Disability theorist Michael Oliver defines impairment as \u201clacking part of or all of a limb, or having a defect limb, organism or mechanism of the body\u201d(Eli pp.6) I am not lacking there is nothing wrong with being the way I am and normal is propaganda. 8 billion people and not one of them is exactly the same as the other so how did we all come to believe that one specific way was the right one or one specific way to do something was the right way to do it. Even in science just because one experiment is more successful than another you continue to study other methods because there are endless changes in technology and techniques. How could we forget how complex and unique our world truly is?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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