Ablenormativity
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The assumption that all human beings are nondisabled, or the marginalization, stigmatization, or pathologization of disability and/or disabled people. uncountable
"To illustrate: one example of the way in which ablenormativity exerts a withering pressure on the 'imagined possible futures' of disabled children lies in what Hans Reinders calls 'the presumption of suffering' of the disabled and those who care for them (Reinders, 2000, ch. 10)."
Example
More examples"To illustrate: one example of the way in which ablenormativity exerts a withering pressure on the 'imagined possible futures' of disabled children lies in what Hans Reinders calls 'the presumption of suffering' of the disabled and those who care for them (Reinders, 2000, ch. 10)."
Etymology
From able + normativity.
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