CI satisfaction is not a static state but a "laborious struggle" to manage ambivalence (conflicting feelings).
- Users actively work to construct a positive narrative to justify the labor/cost of the medical intervention.

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- Ambivalent Medicalization
- Reproducing Audism

Discussion and Conclusions

Lester, J. N. (Ed.). (2021). Discursive Psychology and Disability. Palgrave Studies in Discursive Psychology. Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

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Ambivalent Medicalization

- By constructing the CI user as "abled" and the HA user as "disabled," the discourse reinforces the Medical Model of Disability.
- Disability is framed as a consumer choice between prostheses (choosing the "right" device) rather than a social or political issue.
- Ultimately, the formulation of CI satisfaction perpetuates audism by valuing human variation only as a deviation from "imagined perfection".

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