Saetersdal B
Institute of Special Education, University of Oslo, Norway.
Fam Process. 1997 Dec;36(4):431-5. doi: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1997.00431.x.
Has suffering become an ugly word in the normalization debate? Are the disabled and their families forced into a Pollyanna culture in order to be acknowledged and accepted in good company as the worthy disabled? This essay poses a controversial question: I would like to start a debate and ask whether normalization also has an unseen, ideological downside.