Price notes that this importance of self identification was also found in the interviews where individuals often noted a difference between how one personally identifies their disability and how their disability is defined by others observing them.

Importance of Self Identification in Interviews

Self-identification in the Disabled Academics Survey provided space for complex lived experiences. It allowed participants to express trauma from the diagnostic process, attachment to outdated diagnostic labels, identification with broader categories (e.g., mad, neuroatypical), and the attribution of symptoms to systemic oppression, such as racism.

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One example of how Price and Salzer wrote the questions in ways that held both audiences in mind is that participants were asked to identify their disabilities based on diagnosis categories from fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) but participants were also asked in an open-ended question to write their own self identification.

Solution for Multiple Audiences

Price, M. (2024). Crip Spacetime. Duke University Press.

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