Disability Identity

Question 1

Gill (1997)

Answer 1

argues that reconciling your identity as a disabled person with previously held notions about what being disabled means is a common hurdle

Question 2

Zola (1982)

Answer 2

argues that the vocabulary disabled people use to describe themselves is borrowed from society - a form of ‘learned helplessness’

Question 3

Shakespeare (1996)

Answer 3

argues that disabled people are often socialised into seeing themselves as victims thus creating a ‘victim mentality ‘