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Who's Allowed To Ride The Short Bus?: Un-Defining Disability, Hannah Widdifield
Who's Allowed To Ride The Short Bus?: Un-Defining Disability, Hannah Widdifield
Honors Theses
However easy it may be to do, criminalizing - or less maliciously, categorizing - disability does not make it easier to accommodate. Clumping people with "special needs" together does not meet those needs any more efficiently and labeling those needs as "special" is vague and ineffective. The disabled aren't pegged into their roles for practical reasons, but because of inherited stigmas that are continuously encouraged by institutional policies, popular culture, and art. My thesis is in part an attempt to uncover and articulate a personal and social history of disability. In it I try to puzzle out how misconceptions regarding …