{"title":"Neurodivergence, Embodiment, Empowerment, Pathography: Expressions from the Margins","authors":"Douglas E. Kidd","doi":"10.17730/0888-4552.44.4.31","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n G. Thomas Couser (1997:533) asserts in “Disability, Life Narrative, and Representation,” “The autobiographical act models the agency and self-determination the disability rights movement has fought for....” With autoethnographical prose, focusing on individual and community psychosocial implications of trauma, the paper offers story and analysis centered on embodied experience. This paper grounds lived experience of severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) with a lens of de-medicalizing disability. This paper provides windows on largely hidden and little understood forms of impairment from a frequently marginalized individual. The paper examines the experiences of a severe TBI survivor by exploring the temporal dissonance of impaired cognitive processing. The paper uses pathography to give emphasis to relevant Critical Disability Studies and Critical Trauma Studies scholarship. The paper explores how the intersections of living with multiple impairments (disabilities) while pursuing autoethnography as an unaffiliated researcher strengthens disabled identity, empowers the drive for self-determination, and provides agency to assert oneself politically to better reduce stigma and minimize oppression by the dominant culture. This paper examines the confluence of composing personal experiences of severe TBI survival with Disability Studies scholarship that promotes centering of self and (re)creating identity.","PeriodicalId":87338,"journal":{"name":"Practicing anthropology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Practicing anthropology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.44.4.31","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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G. Thomas Couser (1997:533) asserts in “Disability, Life Narrative, and Representation,” “The autobiographical act models the agency and self-determination the disability rights movement has fought for....” With autoethnographical prose, focusing on individual and community psychosocial implications of trauma, the paper offers story and analysis centered on embodied experience. This paper grounds lived experience of severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) with a lens of de-medicalizing disability. This paper provides windows on largely hidden and little understood forms of impairment from a frequently marginalized individual. The paper examines the experiences of a severe TBI survivor by exploring the temporal dissonance of impaired cognitive processing. The paper uses pathography to give emphasis to relevant Critical Disability Studies and Critical Trauma Studies scholarship. The paper explores how the intersections of living with multiple impairments (disabilities) while pursuing autoethnography as an unaffiliated researcher strengthens disabled identity, empowers the drive for self-determination, and provides agency to assert oneself politically to better reduce stigma and minimize oppression by the dominant culture. This paper examines the confluence of composing personal experiences of severe TBI survival with Disability Studies scholarship that promotes centering of self and (re)creating identity.
G. Thomas Couser(1997:533)在《残疾、生活叙事和再现》中断言,“自传体行为模拟了残疾人权利运动所争取的代理和自决....”。通过自我民族志散文,关注创伤的个人和社区社会心理影响,本文提供了以具体化经验为中心的故事和分析。本文从去医学化残疾的角度,对严重创伤性脑损伤(TBI)患者的生活经历进行了分析。这篇论文为一个经常被边缘化的个体提供了一扇窗户,让我们了解到大部分隐藏的、很少被理解的损伤形式。本文通过探索受损认知加工的时间失调来研究严重创伤性脑损伤幸存者的经历。本文运用病理学的方法,重点介绍了相关的关键残疾研究和关键创伤研究。本文探讨了作为一名独立的研究者,在追求自我民族志的同时,如何与多重缺陷(残疾)生活在一起,加强残疾人的身份认同,赋予自决的动力,并提供在政治上坚持自己的机构,以更好地减少耻辱,最大限度地减少主流文化的压迫。本文探讨了严重创伤性脑损伤生存的个人经历与残疾研究奖学金的融合,促进了自我中心和(重新)创造身份。