Ablenormativity

Quick meaning: Ablenormativity is a noun meaning The assumption that all human beings are nondisabled, or the marginalization, stigmatization, or pathologization of disability and/or disabled people.

Meaning

The assumption that all human beings are nondisabled, or the marginalization, stigmatization, or pathologization of disability and/or disabled people.

Example Sentences

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

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

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).

Word Forms

• able-normativity

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include transability, queernormativity, disability, cisheteronormativity, normativity, disabledness.

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