By Michael Bullis Ever since I began my imersion into disability there have always been definitions. Typically they are legal definitions which become useful when you’re trying to apply for some service or another. Whether it be Social Security Disability Insurance or the employment provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act, each law has unique […]
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The Halo Effect
Impression management requires that people with disabilities learn to recognize and counteract the “halo effect.” In essence, the halo effect says that people with visible disabilities are angelic creatures who, as my grandmother use to say, “wouldn’t say dirt if they had a mouth full of it.” In other words, we’re somehow above the worldly […]
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The Reversal
I was leaving our building the other day at Hampton Plaza and encountered a woman in the elevator who decided that I needed help. I’m blind, so, carry a white cane and often folks decide that this must mean, without any particular factual basis, that I need help. First she wanted to make sure I […]