Barriers and Belonging : Personal Narratives of Disability

Acknowledgments 
Introduction: Entering the Field / Michelle Jarman and Leila Monaghan

PART I LAYING THE GROUNDWORK
I.1. From Poison Ivy to Live Oak: How Transferring Colleges Changed My Perception of Disability / Alyse Ritvo
I.2. Speaking Madness / Shayda Kafai
I.3. Transitioning from One Culture to Another / Anmol Bhatia
I.4. Growing Up with ADHD / Joshua Phelps
I.5. Disability and Sports / Christopher Weingardt
I.6. Contours of Ableism and Transforming a Disabled Life / Zachary A. Richter
I.7. I Can Dance! / Suzi Vee

PART II FAMILIES, ADAPTIVE LIVING, AND REORIENTING EXPECTATIONS
II.1. Life Given and Memory Lost / Mycie Lubin
II.2. Beating the Odds: Life with an Invisible and Chronic Disability / Elizabeth Allyn Campbell
II.3. Benjamin Is Benjamin / Joanne De Simone
II.4. Conversation with a Mother and Son: An Interview/ Tricia Black, Michael Black, and Leila Monaghan
II.5. Taking Disability One Stage at a Time (unless They Attack You All at Once) / Christina Spence
II.6. My Brother’s Traumatic Brain Injury and Its Effect on Me / Douglas Kidd

PART III DISABILITY AND COMMUNICATION
III.1. Voicing Disability with Disabled Voices: Reimagining a Stuttered Identity / Joshua St. Pierre
III.2. Fibromyalgia Syndrome / Catherine Graves
III.3. ASL in a Hearing World / Blake Culley
III.4. Bumping into Things while Treading Carefully: On Narrative, Blindness, and Longing for Light/ Tasha Chemel
III.5. What I Wish You Would Ask: Conversations about Cerebral Palsy / Leigh A. Neithardt
III.6. Take a Second Look / Leslie Johnson Elliott

PART IV MAPPING COMPLEX RELATIONS
IV.1. My Name is Anna / Anna Roach
IV.2. Living Blind / Caitlin Hernandez
IV.3. Shades of Shame / Emily K. Michael
IV.4. Abandoning Normalcy / Garret R. Cruzan
IV.5. A Quiet Conflict: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder / Michael T. Salter
IV.6. Brother and Sister in Arms / Rachel Anderson

PART V IDENTITY, RESISTANCE, AND COMMUNITY
V.1. Disability, Belonging, Pride / Allegra Heath-Stout
V.2. Deconstructing “Accessible” Education in Academia / Nancy La Monica
V.3. Fake It until You Make It (or until You Find Your Place) / Megan L. Coggins
V.4. My Anxiety / Susan Macri
V.5. Disability, the Lure of Escapism, and Making the Invisible Visible / Suzanne Walker
V.6. Discovering My Deaf Identity / Denton Mallas

PART VI THEORIES AND LIVES
VI.1. Taking Great Pains with Disability Theory / Adena Rottenstein
VI.2. Medicating My Socially Constructed Disability / Cindee Calton
VI.3. Flourishing with Polio: A Spiritual, Transformational, and Disability Studies Perspective / Rodney B. Hume-Dawson
VI.4. Learning to See Myself in the Mirror / Adam P. Newman
VI.5. Writing Myself into Madness and Disability Studies / Rebekah Moras
VI.6. Autism Isn’t Speaking: Autistic Subversion in Media and Public Policy / Lydia X. Z. Brown
Afterword: Negotiating the Future / Leila Monaghan

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