nancy maires

Nancy Mairs , a women who likes to be referred to as cripple, expands on the relationship between disability and identity. The examples Dolnick gave on how people seem to treat "disabled" people has to do with their identity. The outer appearance affects another's judgement and forces them to be kind, more aware of what a disabled might need. Mairs explained the ways language and disability interact with each other. The whole concept of whether what kind of disability a person has can affect language. The Mental disability makes it difficult for people to communicate with them. Then there is the physically challenged people who are completely the same as everyone else on a communication and intelligence level but are looked down upon because of their disability. Like I said, more people are aware and just watching out for what that person might need. And last there is the language on certain people can understand, the type of people where segregation can somehow be related into this. For instance, someone with a disability can emphasis with another who is also disabled. There really is no need for the whole, "I'm sorry" "I can't imagine what your going through." They can go straight to the "and ho did you learn to deal with the emotion" or such and such. It's a different type of language in my point of view.