Thank you so much for this analysis - it articulates something that I’ve long known from my daily life as a young disabled person, whose need to have shoes that I can comfortably wear needs to get medicalised so that it is met, yet it is frustratingly a phenomenon I rarely see discussed in disabilities studies academic literature or literature on welfare conditionality and benefit cuts. I think this medicalisation applies to some extent to all kinds of impairments or divergences in normatively expected and enforced functioning, including mental health.
Thank you so much for this analysis - it articulates something that I’ve long known from my daily life as a young disabled person, whose need to have shoes that I can comfortably wear needs to get medicalised so that it is met, yet it is frustratingly a phenomenon I rarely see discussed in disabilities studies academic literature or literature on welfare conditionality and benefit cuts. I think this medicalisation applies to some extent to all kinds of impairments or divergences in normatively expected and enforced functioning, including mental health.