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I Was Not Born With a Label; Society Gave Me One

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It's designed to keep individuals with disabilities on it, rather than intended as an incentive to assist them in bettering their lives.) While this is an important issue and one that I will discuss later, I came across an article that I feel is my duty as a blogger for disability rights. Today, as I prepared to write my next blog post, I was bouncing around with my head, trying to decide on a topic. I thought my next blog would be about the social security problem. An article by a lady named Sunny Taylor titled  The Right Not to Work: Power and Disability . In the article, Miss Taylor indicates that she is an individual who has Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita (AMC). According to Web MD 1 , "Arthrogryposis is a general or descriptive term for the development of nonprogressive contractures affecting one or more areas of the body. A contracture is a condition in which a joint becomes permanently fixed in a bent (flexed) or straightened (extended) position, completely or par...