In today’s episode I talk to K about what is considered normal vs disordered behavior, being nongender, the intersection of fat hatred, sexism + ableism, embodying the fears of the able bodied, imagined expertise, and the dual reality of self diagnosis, especially for those living with rare or rarely diagnosed conditions.
Episode Page: http://www.insicknesspod.com/blog/2016/2/1/18-well-its-complicated
Links
More information on Adjustment Disorder from the Mayo Clinic: http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/adjustment-disorders/basics/definition/con-20031704
More information on Drapetomania from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapetomania
More information on being non-gendered: http://nonbinary.org/wiki/Agender
Self-Diagnosis: A Discursive Systematic Review of the Medical Literature, from the Journal of Participatory Medicine: http://www.jopm.org/evidence/research/2010/09/15/self-diagnosis-a-discursive-systematic-review-of-the-medical-literature/
More information about Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome: http://ednf.org/what-eds
