> I, and others, have been mulling over how to refer to people who are not disabled. Roughly, our options seem to be: normal, or non-marked identity: centering a certain body/mind as “normal” … It tends to imply that “normal” is accepted as good, while non-normal is bad … able-bodied, which seems to be the settled-upon term: excludes people with non-physical disabilities … and it just makes my heart cry. temporarily-able-bodied: at any time in life, you may become disabled, due to age, injury, late-manifesting genetics, or social barriers … neurotypical, physiotypyical: terms used in the autistic community to describe persons whose makeup conforms to the expected norm … normative: … Continue reading >AMANDAW