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Invisibility and Hypervisibility of Disability
Disability exists as both a hypervisible and invisible experience. Space, time, costs, and relationality make disability a in/visible experience. For instance there are times disabled individuals are asked to make their needs hypervisible - pleading case to ten people for accommodations. Yet, disability can also be invisible, often disabled workers are pushed to work remotely, pushed out of public life, or forced to mask their disabled experience and pain. There are also times were in/visibility collides for instance since in the United States most meetings are taken when sitting a disabled worker who uses crutches might be asked "what happened?" when they stand up using crutches after a meeting despite the fact that they have used crutches for years.
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Disability Studies
Culture as a Sociological Issue
Social Science
Empirical Science
Science
Sociology