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Old Man Yells at Cloud's avatar

"I had a new disability identity."

I've gotten old; so I've acquired an "old-person identity."

What? You don't accept my identity as an old person? Help, help, someone is denying my existence and trying to erase and silence me!

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Old Man Yells at Cloud's avatar

I looked up the "body horror novella" (26:10): it is just an undergraduate thesis! Do you really want to be picking on college students? The "autoethnographic dissertation" (27:40) is much stronger evidence of institutional rot, as it was accepted for the award of a Ph.D. What a nightmare it would be to have to comment on a piece of writing that oozes such narcissism and self-importance from every page!

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letterwriter's avatar

Why are you reading a re-published speech transcript as though it's supposed to be a research paper? Transcripts are indeed published from time to time. I believe Wittenberg's work is a solid example.

Here's Wong's speech, in another format besides the journal that republished it. How was it titled and cited in the journal?

https://bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.psu.edu/dist/b/135914/files/2024/08/Wong-A.-2024-May.-How-Ableism-impacts-people-who-need-and-use-AAC-1.pdf

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Colin Wright's avatar

It was published as a normal research article. It should have just remained a speech or published on her personal blog. Not the kind of thing a research journal should be publishing!

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07434618.2025.2489663

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letterwriter's avatar

Oh my. The laziness goes well beyond the abstract being a copypaste. Thanks for the link. As for "portions of this paper were presented at" https://aac-learning-center.org/2024/06/01/how-ableism-impacts-people-who-need-and-use-aac/ I wonder, I just wonder which came first.

In return for the tandf link, here's the grant that paid for her time https://taggs.hhs.gov/Detail/AwardDetail?arg_AwardNum=90REGE0014&arg_ProgOfficeCode=291

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Colin Wright's avatar

Thank you for the grant info!

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letterwriter's avatar

And I agree, this should not have been accepted by anyone in the food chain. I wonder what else that center has produced under that grant.

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