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Results from the Participants

"If you weigh me, it’s normal weight. But because I keep sitting (in the wheelchair), sometimes I feel I look a little overweight." For Bazz, gaining weight affected her feelings of attractiveness and her mobility. She felt that disabled bodies were already perceived as deviant, and gaining weight would make her body even more so.

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Disability Studies

Culture as a Sociological Issue

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