Telling stories is a form of art, it critiques dominant forms of cultural representation: it fosters pride in one’s disabilities, creates positive self-images, and envisions a society, which not only accepts, but also celebrates, diversity. In Eliza Chandler (2010) sidewalk stories: The Troubling Task of Identification discusses how often times those who try to raise awareness of disability often times separate pride from shame. They do not look into the cracks in which different flowers grow. This readings calls for “a place where pride can exist in togetherness with shame rather than in its abandonment; a space necessary for the release of stories, like these, which do not constitute wavering bodies of pride as "excludable types".

Throughout history, individuals with disabilities have struggled to live full and productive lives as independently as possible in a society burdened with stigma, discrimination, and attitudinal and environmental barriers. Most legislation, …show more content…
There are some guidelines in Cameron’s (2013) chapter where it problematizes the use of ‘people with disability’, this language indicates that personhood and impairment can be separated, which can be associated with the historical thinking of the body and mind as separate. (p.18).

Both readings discuss the social model. Chandler (2010) describes her fall into the public's expectation of a living problem and the problem being located within her body. She claims, “Under the social model disability emerges between the crack and I.” Thus, it is important to understand disability as emerging between others and oneself. The cracks in the side walk are full of stories and history that need to be heard, the cracks are created because of the way our society is built upon bias attitudes towards people with disability and which is manifested in the very way we design our