A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of - Etheses - Queen Margaret ...

26. Identity
27. Disability was about other people, but it wasn‟t about us
28. Disabled people were people in wheelchairs or who had Down‟s Syndrome
29. The need to „prove yourself‟
30. The Social Model
31. “If I could find a cure...”
32. Charity collecting boxes
33. Disabled people seen as contaminating
34. Does anybody like being disabled?
35. Non-disabled people
36. Oppressed disabled people
37. “I felt grateful for the fact that I was born healthy”
38. Feeling awkward around disabled people
39. They didn‟t talk about disability at special school
40. “Should I mention about being disabled?”
41. Put off by charities
42. All other health issues seen as related to impairment
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Through focussed coding I narrowed these down into eleven refined themes, as
also listed:
1. Segregation and its impact
2. Isolation
3. Sex and relationships
4. Experiencing pity and unwanted attention
5. “I don‟t see myself as a disabled person”
6. Disabled people‟s movement or disability movement?
7. The Affirmative Model
8. Hidden impairment, passing and being judged
9. Pain and impairment effects