ablenormativity

English

Alternative forms

• able-normativity

Etymology

able +‎ normativity

Noun

ablenormativity (uncountable)

1. The assumption that all human beings are nondisabled, or the marginalization, stigmatization, or pathologization of disability and/or disabled people.
   • 2009, Kevin McDonough, “The 'Futures' of Queer Children and the Common School Ideal”, in Graham Haydon, Mark Halstead, editors, The Common School and the Comprehensive Ideal: A Defence by Richard Pring with Complementary Essays‎^[1], page 296:

     To illustrate: one example of the way in which ablenormativity exerts a withering pressure on the 'imagined possible futures' of disabled children lies in what Hans Reinders calls 'the presumption of suffering' of the disabled and those who care for them (Reinders, 2000, ch. 10).

   • 2016, Lydia Brown, “'You don't feel like a freak anymore': Representing Disability, Madness and Trauma in Litchfield Penitentiary”, in Adrienne Trier-Bieniek, April Kalogeropoulos Householder, editors, Feminist Perspectives on Orange Is the New Black: Thirteen Critical Essays‎^[2], page 185:

     Ablenormativity requires performing abledness and neurotypicality—apparent disability cannot be tolerated.

   • 2021, Ryan Lee Cartwright, Peculiar Places: A Queer Crip History of White Rural Nonconformity‎^[3], page 11:

     Ablenormativity, and ableism more broadly, are racialized in multiple ways.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:ablenormativity.

Related terms

• ablenormative