Listener Picks: Disability Is Everyone's Problem / Laura Mauldin

People think "those poor people who need help, let's give them a technological band-aid, something to fix their abnormal interaction with our normal world." And that's where that individualist thinking, about that one off thing, that one person who is the problem kicks in, rather than thinking "oh this is something that is actually typical, a normal part of human life." And it reflects on how we have built our systems, that we have built our world with "normal bodies" in mind. We have typical assumptions about the kind of bodies that make up society. And when we think about the individual body that doesn't fit the idealized version of the "normal person" then you locate the site of the problem on the individual. And then we apply technology to this individual, instead of on the social system, on the environment, those sorts of things.