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Appendix D: Themes arising from the first series of interviews,
produced through open and focussed coding
1. Segregated schooling and its impact
2. Isolation
3. “I am an individual”
4. Sex and relationships
5. Experiencing pity and unwanted attention
6. “I don‟t see myself as a disabled person”
7. People who „get it‟
8. People who don‟t „get it‟
9. Disabled people‟s movement or disability movement?
10. “Okay about being who I am”
11. I knew I had health problems, but I didn‟t think of that as a disability
12. Hidden impairment and being judged
13. Pain and impairment effects
14. “You don‟t have to see yourself as disabled if you don‟t want to”
15. Identifying as disabled purely a practical thing
16. “Just don‟t talk about it, please”
17. Passing and the emotional costs involved in performing
18. Political identity as disabled
19. Accepting other people‟s definitions
20. “It‟d be easier if you‟d just accept you‟re disabled”
21. “Things are getting better”
22. Being disabled is not all one unremitting crap experience
23. The Affirmative Model
24. Disabled people just weren‟t seen/ or just were there/ or were seen begging
25. Relief at being diagnosed/ being given description