![]() ![]() Downward social comparisons were associated with positive body esteem. Participants had mixed perceptions of body esteem as an aspect of their sexuality. By critically discounting exclusionary or negative sexual schema, people with cerebral palsy learn to be more accepting of their abilities and attribute positive conceptualizations to themselves and their sexual identity. Notably, accepting oneself was important to people with cerebral palsy’s sense of sexuality. Interview data were thematically analyzed using NVivo and manual line-by-line analysis. The interview discourse focused on how, if at all, private/internal constructions of sexuality influenced the way in which participants expressed and negotiated their sexuality. In-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with two women and five men with moderate to severe cerebral palsy from Canada and Australia. ![]() In doing so, this research discusses participant conceptualizations of sexuality with CP. This study explored how people with cerebral palsy (CP) negotiated and perceived their sexual interactions with others. Finally, some reflections are offered on how the conditions that negate the telling of his story might be challenged. These, and the effects of impairment, are seen to have direct consequences for the tellability of embodied experiences along with identity construction and narrative repair over time. This makes it transgressive, frightening, difficult to hear, and invokes the twin processes of deprivation of opportunity and infiltrated consciousness as described by Nelson (2001). ![]() Over time, the obdurate facts of his impaired and disabled body lead him to reject this dominant narrative and move into a story line that is located on Norrick’s (2005) upper-bounding side of tellability. His experiences post SCI illuminate the ways in which movement from one form of embodiment to another connects him to a dominant cultural narrative regarding recovery from SCI that is both tellable and acceptable in terms of plot and structure to those around him. This article explores the life story of a young man who experienced a spinal cord injury (SCI) and became disabled though playing the sport of rugby union football. Diversity brings benefits through creative ways of working and through access to the pool of different abilities developed by disabled people ![]() It illustrates, through D's experience: (1) Our assumptions that an "able-bodied" status quo is normal, despite the fact that one in five people of working age has a long-term disability (2) The inherent dualism in our thought patterns that constructs oppositions, such as disability/ability, individual/society or assimilation/diversity (3) The need for new ways of thinking that overcome these (4) How deafness can exclude and isolate, and be experienced as a "stigma" (5) The lack of deaf awareness even among well-meaning people (6) How education, employment and careers guidance systematically ignore the special needs of deaf people (7) The pressure on deaf people to be "model deaf employees" who overcome all odds without complaint or special help (8) The hostility encountered by deaf people who take back control in communication by acting assertively and against the norm (9) That a good job is a "many-splendoured thing". It describes deafness in a particularly vivid and concrete way, provides theoretical links that illuminate general issues around disability and provides insights to enhance our professional understanding. Abstract This research is a single extended narrative analysis exploring my partner D's experience of deafness. ![]()
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