{"id":1749,"date":"2009-10-28T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=1749"},"modified":"2015-08-28T11:30:02","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T15:30:02","slug":"identifying-as-disabled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2009\/10\/28\/identifying-as-disabled\/","title":{"rendered":"Identifying as disabled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In light of my <a href=\"http:\/\/blogofstench.livejournal.com\/443536.html\">recent<\/a> completion of the quiz about my invisible illness, this <a href=\"http:\/\/blogofstench.livejournal.com\/443536.html\">entry<\/a> on FWD [Feminists With Disabilities] has me thinking. If I can come out publically as having a mental illness, can I go further with a political\/social self-definiton of &quot;disabled?&quot; I commented:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 80px;\">Nellie Jean said, <em>I&rsquo;m also &ldquo;afraid&rdquo; of coming out PWD because I never thought I had it &ldquo;bad enough.&rdquo;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 80px;\">I can understand that sentiment thoroughly. I have a sister with cerebral palsy, so the manifestations of her disability have strongly affected what I think of as &ldquo;disabled.&rdquo; I am very much loath to identify as disabled with my anxiety disorder and occasional depressive episodes because they don&rsquo;t seem &ldquo;bad enough.&rdquo; The medical model is clearly talking here. I have more thinking to do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 80px;\">Thank you for the post, Abby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In light of my recent completion of the quiz about my invisible illness, this entry on FWD [Feminists With Disabilities] has me thinking. If I can come out publically as having a mental illness, can I go further with a political\/social self-definiton of &quot;disabled?&quot; I commented: Nellie Jean said, I&rsquo;m also &ldquo;afraid&rdquo; of coming out&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2009\/10\/28\/identifying-as-disabled\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Identifying as disabled<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[647],"class_list":["post-1749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-people-with-disabilities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6196,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions\/6196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}