Corporeality and Ableist Microaggressions in Individuals with Intellectual Disability

Abstract

Disability, interpreted through ableist conceptions, emerges as a relevant bodily characteristic for interaction and understanding of the world and in relation to the experience of discrimination. Therefore, given the diversity of bodies and functionalities diverging from the bodily standard, its study requires analyses that consider the weight that perceptibility of difference holds. With a sample of 223 participants with intellectual/developmental disabilities, the following article shows the results obtained through the Survey of Ableist Microaggressions in Easy-to-Read. Following previous research, the visibility of disability and other variables associated with it, such as the use of supports or the degree of functionality that makes them necessary, seem to impact the frequency with which this group is exposed to everyday situations of violence. Thus, non-normative corporeality categorized in terms of intellectual/developmental disabilities is, in this case, acknowledged by the population as a decisive characteristic in their (dis)consideration as members of the community and definitive for their sovereignty.