"To move from the passive position of the silenced object of 
discourse in the cultural locations of disability to the active 
position of producer of knowledge about the social, political, and 
phenomenological aspects of disability destabilizes any number of 
objectifying practices.  This change alone will prove monumental not 
because people with disabilities inherently know the truth of their 
own social and biological lives, but rather because their visible 
entry into the discourse of their bodies makes all speaking positions 
in the field shift, becoming necessarily self-conscious and 
increasingly self-reflexive.  Herein lies the source of much of the 
discomfort posed by disability studies - and also its radical promise."


Snyder and Mitchell, Cultural Locations of Disability, U Chicago 
Press, 2006, p 203


"People Who experience mood swings, fear, voices and visions"