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Tuesday, November 27, 2018

The Insidious and Omnipresent Infantilization of Disabled Adults

Here is my latest post for the Psychology Today blog, about how common it is to infantilize people with disabilities; how I recognized this attitude in myself. An experience with MUSE was, as it so often is, my muse for the piece.

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Great piece Susan! I have a teenager, but I’m constantly reminding myself to see him as a burgeoning adult, not a young child, who thinks his life is pretty great the way it is. Loved this!

— added by kim mccafferty on Thursday, November 29, 2018 at 12:29 pm