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When combining the theories found in Snyder\u2019s \u201cCultural Location of Disability\u201d and Kafer\u2019s \u201cImagined Futures,\u201d it becomes clear that able-bodied disability activists do not understand the social expectations people with disabilities are subjected to. The possible effects of such pressures are perfectly exemplified in Lahiri\u2019s short story, \u201cThe Treatment of BiBi Haldar,\u201d and the experience of author Kafer, which both show the \u201crelationship\u201d(Snyder) \u00a0between social pressures and actual disabled experiences and insist on an end in social bias against disability. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
An example of able-bodied activists\u2019 lack of understanding of the social pressures on the disabled is seen in Kafer\u2019s example of \u201cblindfold exercises\u201dto simulate blind experiences. \u00a0(Kafer, 5) This exercise focuses on physical lack of sight, but fails to simulate anything about the social experience of the disability, thus not fully representing disabled bodies through not exemplifying any of the bias and social pressures they deal with throughout their life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Societal pressures are a pivotal part of understanding disabled experiences, as Snyder asserts that there is a relationship between society\u2019s belief of what disabled experiences are, and what people with disabilities actually experience on page 7. Without an understanding of this relationship, able-bodied people could never simulate a disabled experience in any simple exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Society views disabilities as an obstacle to leading a normal life, and insists that they are destined for a less fulfilling future of \u201cpain and isolation\u201d(Kafer,1). Not only does this affect how society views the disabled, but this also affects disabled people\u2019s views of themselves, \u00a0and therefore how they conduct themselves in life. Snyder compares this effect on the disabled to the obvious effect on \u201cnormal\u201d people by saying, \u201cIf disabled people are subject to the internalization of dominant definitions and values of disability just like those who are nondisabled, then asking clients about their personal goals is not a pat solution\u2026of intervention.\u201d(Snyder, 8). This quote shows that a disabled person\u2019s personal goals and true desires could be influenced and changed by these societal roles expected of them, because they have never seen themselves represented in another way. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The fictional character BiBi is an example of such an affected disabled person. In her village\u2019s opinion, the only good future a woman can have is to become a wife. Somehow, a person cannot be a woman and disabled in this society because her parents deem that her disability makes her \u201cineligible\u201d for marriage. If she hopes to be a normal woman, she must hope for a cure. In this way, BiBi\u2019s true desire is to be part of society and not locked away by her parents. However, she conflates true desire with the misconstrued desire \u00a0to be married, because her village tells her that is the only way to be cured, and therefore to be normal. Similarly, Kafer dreamed to be an academic of disability but was told that it was impossible because he was disabled and that he should focus only on curing his disability and not following his dreams. His dream, or his \u201cgoal,\u201d was needing to be cured, just like BiBi; however, Kafer broke societal expectations, going on to become an educated academic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The difference in BiBi and Kafer\u2019s experiences fully shows that able-bodied disability activists do not understand what it is to be disabled, because the disabled\u2019s true ailment is that society rejects them because of their physical differences. It is clear that disabled experience is built both on societal bias and the physical fact of their own abilities in this way, and for different people these characteristics have different outcomes. (Seen through BiBi and Kafer) \u00a0This is why Kafer asserts to \u201cthink of disability differently\u201d through \u201casking questions\u201d (page 18), because this will truly break society\u2019s biased system of labeling and expectations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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When combining the theories found in Snyder\u2019s \u201cCultural Location of Disability\u201d and Kafer\u2019s \u201cImagined Futures,\u201d it becomes clear that able-bodied disability activists do not understand the social expectations people with disabilities are subjected to. The possible effects of such pressures are perfectly exemplified in Lahiri\u2019s short story, \u201cThe Treatment of BiBi Haldar,\u201d and the experience … Continue reading “Carly Rose\u2019s Response to Snyder and Mitchell\u2019s “Cultural Locations of Disability”, Lahiri’s \u201cThe Treatment of BiBi Haldar,\u201d and Kafer’s “Imagined Futures””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/papJgd-i7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1124,"href":"https:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions\/1124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}