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Summary Of Rethinking Normalcy

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What is normal? Who says what is normal and what is not? Can “normal” be changed? Many people have tried to figure out the answer to these troubling social questions. The problem with the concept of normalcy is that there is not set and fixed definition of normal. It is defined by what it is not; like normal is not being disabled. Normalcy and disability is like the question: what is darkness without light? Throughout all the readings in this course, the idea of normalcy has been brought up. However, in Rethinking Normalcy the authors not only defined normal, but used it to show how people think and how it is used to “help” people with disabilities. Throughout the book Rethinking Normalcy one will come to realize that disability is any kind

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