Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement (A Norton Short)
This led into a broader discussion of games and digital technologies that work well for autistic people. Gardiner mentioned the Sims as another game that autistic people like, and later Awni mentioned Discord as a social platform “easily adapted by autistic users to facilitate autistic-styled communication due to its flexibility both with custom em
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As philosopher Elizabeth Barnes writes, disability is often characterized as a bad-difference, but she reminds us that it can be seen instead as mere-difference.
Ashley Shew • Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement (A Norton Short)
Shivers explains how much of autism tech intervention research re-emphasizes pointless norms of communication or creates very strict parameters of norms for behavior to “teach” autistics to appear less autistic in different scripted scenarios—through games with robots, virtual-reality simulations, and video modeling. Panelist Rua Williams picked ba
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The social model simply asks us to expand our ideas about disability: it pushes back against the knee-jerk assumption that disability is abnormal and that our bodies and minds should be normalized.
Ashley Shew • Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement (A Norton Short)
Few disabled people have just one disability. That’s important to note because most studies about disability want you to have just one—which means most studies about disability do not record our data with any fidelity.
Ashley Shew • Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement (A Norton Short)
Bill Peace, writes: “These images of prosthetized amputees and walking wheelchair users—taken as a representative of disabled people—make for a highly problematic case of a tokenism that insists that disability is something to overcome, something to eliminate, something that is simply a medical problem and not a social one.”
Ashley Shew • Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement (A Norton Short)
These groups rely on pathologized approaches to disability (meaning focused on impairment) that can be in contrast to experiential or relational approaches (which would focus on environment, expectations, relationships, and set norms).
Ashley Shew • Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement (A Norton Short)
the initial identification and social expulsion of Jews and others, the confiscation of their property, their ghettoization, their deportation, and, ultimately, even their extermination.
Ashley Shew • Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement (A Norton Short)
These narratives are already overrepresented, and in some cases, they have done damage to disabled people as a community, disabled people as knowers, and the experience of disability as valid and valuable.
Ashley Shew • Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement (A Norton Short)
Don’t be neutral; the “neutral” medical position on so many things has justified our exclusion and incarceration, and the “neutral” social view makes us into unfortunate charity cases rather