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ablenormativity en · NOUN

Etymology

From able + normativity.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The assumption that all human beings are nondisabled, or the marginalization, stigmatization, or pathologization of disability and/or disabled people.
   • Ablenormativity, and ableism more broadly, are racialized in multiple ways. 2021, Ryan Lee Cartwright, Peculiar Places: A Queer Crip History of White Rural Nonconformity, page 11:
   • Ablenormativity requires performing abledness and neurotypicality—apparent disability cannot be tolerated. 2016, Lydia Brown, “'You don't feel like a freak anymore': Representing Disability, Madness and Trauma in Litchfield Penitentiary”, in Adrienne Trier-Bieniek, April Kalogeropoulos Householder, editors, Feminist Perspectives on Orange Is the New Black: Thirteen Critical Essays, page 185:
   • To illustrate: one example of the way in which ablenormativity exerts a withering pressure on the 'imagined possible futures' of disabled children lies in what Hans Reinders calls 'the presumption of suffering' of the disabled and those who care for them (Reinders, 2000, ch. 10). 2009, Kevin McDonough, “The 'Futures' of Queer Children and the Common School Ideal”, in Graham Haydon, Mark Halstead, editors, The Common School and the Comprehensive Ideal: A Defence by Richard Pring with Complementary Essays, page 296:

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