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Sheila Black's Passing On My Disability

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Within Sheila Black’s Passing on my Disability is the opinion that a disadvantage, like having a disability, does not mean the withdrawal of a person from what would be considered an ordinary life. In the opening of Black’s essay, the author mainly focuses on laying down the foundational knowledge required to understand her story, including her family and her condition, X-linked hypophosphatemia (XLH) — a form of dwarfism — that debilitated herself and two of her children. During the most of the middle of her essay, Black proceeded to further elaborating on her and her children’s life. The author mentions many of their difficulties and pains, such as when Black writes on the difficulty of seeing her “loved one [with] that psychic pain” everyday
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