This article is a very good example of covering, but it seems to show it in a different way than how we have been looking at it in class. For many years, there has been discrimination among the disabled community whether we see it or not. The article shows how this discrimination plays a big part in the covering of other persons besides yourself. People with disabilities are not given the same opportunity as everyone else because sometimes opportunity is not as accessible for them which causes them to stay in the dark most of the time.
One of the things that stood out to me was “At screenings of the Netflix documentary “Crip Camp,” at Sundance, audience members often asked why they had never been told the story of Camp Jened for young people with disabilities in the 1960s, and of the activism many of the campers pursued in the disability rights movement as adults….One theory is this: They didn’t want to know.” (Heumann, Wodatch). This is one of the many reasons that disabled people experience covering, but in an unintentional way. People without disabilities are not invested enough to actively include them: in turn, covers them from accomplishing things as easy as anyone else.
I agree that covering of disabilities has been going for ages, and I think the perceived benefit of that is (like you said) that it is less work. If people start openly showing their disabilities, people will have to be more conscious of the limits of they are able to do and that will require effort to include them properly (ex – installing ramps in buildings).
I really like how you went in depth about the explanation for how this kind of covering differs – it will definitely bring some variety to the paper.
This is an interesting way to look at covering. In what we’ve been looking at in class, society for the most part intentionally pressures individuals to cover but in this case, we aren’t purposefully doing it.