Safa Shafat, “Normal”

When looking at abnormalities, we, the general public view “normal” as what is supposed to happen, or what the society has set and expect the norm to be. Typical changes like, as time passes, growth of the body occurs, being able to walk, talk, see, etc. When someone who is not able to do some or all of those typically set things, they are often labeled as not “normal or typical. We see him or her with a different perspective, sometimes not even as another human being.

Lennard Davis in his book Enforcing Normalcy further goes and explains how we as a society has set up norm ourselves to calculated against when an individual is judged. “To understand the disabled body, one must return to the concept of norm, the normal body” (Davis, 3). Davis further describes the concept of norm and its existence among us. We as human being is used to compare ourselves to others, especially if our condition is better than the person being compared to.

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