Tanya Titchkosky Abilities

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Tanya Titchkosky starts her essay by indicating that they are “blind” — however, she purely explains this as an act. Titchkosky’s passes as someone who is blind because of her disability of not being able to “see,” yet, she describes that, that is not the case. In fact, she has stated that she did not stimulate that notion of blindness; “I acted blind, while seeing… this uses the experience of to disrupt conventional notions of disability and theorize the tie between oppressive culture and assumptions and the meaning of embodiment…” (210). She performed as someone who is “blind” by wearing a dark glasses and having a guide dog with her. Titchkosky argues that to be disable, it indicates that it is an achieved social status, a status that is constituted between the people; society. Titchkosky further states …show more content…

She indicates that this is a “master status” as in, she is not only a women but is now referred as a “blind women.” Her main points were to address that she was seen as someone who is not capable of proceeding activities through the eyes of society, that their status of being “disable” has somehow become a plea or a cry for help. Even those who know she is fully capable of seeing, still sees her in a different light because of her status. She even argues and questions herself if she has taken advantage of the fact that she is either blind or sighted, and what it now means to be a disabled being. Being disabled also comes with ambiguity; are we in or we out? Marginalization? Tanya Titchkosky’s perspective on blindness and disability has made me question how I should act around those that I consider “disabled.” Would I be helping them or would I be intruding their space and doubting their capabilities because I am considered as “normal?” It really is all about the ambiguity, the in between that Titchkosky states that really gets

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