Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement (A Norton Short)

These schools were intended to “reform” Native children to be part of “normal” (read: white, proper) society.

The category of “disability” doesn’t fall simply along the lines of impairment: we don’t count most people who wear glasses as disabled, although they are visually impaired. And not everyone who is disabled is impaired: some people with dwarfism who are otherwise healthy experience the world as disabling simply because things are built too tall—fro

disabled experts and professionals are continually getting asked inappropriate personal questions when they are there to offer their professional expertise. They are not treated like other authors/scientists/social workers/teachers.

IBM and the Nazis jointly designed, and IBM exclusively produced, technological solutions that enabled Hitler to accelerate and in many ways automate key aspects of his persecution of Jews, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and others the Nazis considered enemies. Custom-designed, IBM-produced punch cards, sorted by IBM machines leased to the Nazis

She should have exercised more!) and then denies proper access and care because they have a “lifestyle disease.” (Disgusting phrase.) This shows up around lung cancer (if you get a lung-cancer

Former poster children—literally what they were called and where that term comes from—were called Jerry’s Kids. In the actual telethons, Jerry Lewis waxed on about the horrible fate awaiting children with muscular dystrophy.

As the disability community notes, euphemisms like “differing abilities” elide the realities of disability (some of us can’t do some things in some ways, and that’s okay) and work against disability identity and pride (it’s hard to have a pride movement when people can’t even say they are disabled).

Native American beliefs are fundamentally rooted in ideas of a multi-layered and ever changing reality. Because reality is ever changing Native Americans have no conception of normal and conversely have no concept of abnormal. It

Eliminating disability, particularly congenital disability, was part of the “war against the