A Disability History of the United States (2012)
“I remember this trip as a trek, but today my computer tells me that the journey was only around forty miles. My memories of this experience are vague, but overwhelmingly are those of feeling cared for and loved: time alone with a parent, a happy room with brightly colored toys, a cheerful lady who played games with me, and beanbags that I attempted to throw at a wooden target with circles cut into it. The delight of throwing beanbags is such a vivid part of the fuzzy memory that by doing so I m...ust have been violating a rule at home that forbade throwing things inside buildings.
It was not until I had been doing disability history for several years that it dawned on me that my memories were of attending an Easter Seals facility for speech therapy. All along, of course, I knew that I had gone through speech therapy. I had never, however, considered myself an Easter Seals kid. Naively young, I slid in, and then slid out of the disability category—never being quite old enough even to know it.MoreLess
It was not until I had been doing disability history for several years that it dawned on me that my memories were of attending an Easter Seals facility for speech therapy. All along, of course, I knew that I had gone through speech therapy. I had never, however, considered myself an Easter Seals kid. Naively young, I slid in, and then slid out of the disability category—never being quite old enough even to know it.MoreLess
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