Tremain

Oliver…pointed out, furthermore, that the consequences of these restrictions do not simply fall on random individuals as the personal tragedy theory implies, but rather systematically accrue to disabled people as a group who experience institutionalised discrimination throughout society. The “personal tragedy” approach to disability often goes unrecognized, unacknowledged and unexamined because language, narrative and interpretation are perspectival and situated, because the oppression of disabled people is so pervasive, and furthermore, because people have not had access to prominent forums and venues in which to articulate their subjective understandings of the disadvantaged social circumstances they confront, the social relations from which they arise, and what is required to rectify them.

Shelley Lynn Tremain