KosAbility is a community diary series posted at 5 PM ET every Sunday and 8PM ET on Wednesday. It's a gathering place for people living with disabilities, our families and friends, and interested others. Volunteer diarists offer specific knowledge and insight on a topic they know intimately. We invite you to comment on what you've read and/or ask general questions about disabilities, share your own knowledge, tell bad jokes, post photos, or rage about the unfairness of their situation. Our only rule is to be kind; trolls will be spayed or neutered.
Our diarist this week is homogenius.
Words. Labels. Identity. Assimilation. Self-Identity. Difference.
In any identifiable sub-group, these are complex issues that often provoke reactions, heated emotions, and intense opinions. For people living with disabilities or other life-altering conditions, it's often part of our deepest inner core. Some of us have known only "difference" for our entire lives--others change status from "temporarily abled" to living with disability.
So who are you? What do you call yourself? (We'll talk about this after the hop....)