This paper is an exploration into the connections between disability, identity, and clothing. The... more This paper is an exploration into the connections between disability, identity, and clothing. The age of adolescence is marked with remarkable transformation in the body and brain. This development changes how teens look and interact with the world. Clothing is the manifestation of shared experiences between the individual and their surrounding environment. What does this dialogue look like if your body doesn't conform to current societal standards of normalization? What materializes when these experiences are negative? Teens with physical disabilities face such experiences through micro-aggressions. Desexualization, denial of privacy, and denial of identity are just some of the ways that disabled teens experience the world around them. In these
This paper is an exploration into the connections between disability, identity, and clothing. The... more This paper is an exploration into the connections between disability, identity, and clothing. The age of adolescence is marked with remarkable transformation in the body and brain. This development changes how teens look and interact with the world. Clothing is the manifestation of shared experiences between the individual and their surrounding environment. What does this dialogue look like if your body doesn't conform to current societal standards of normalization? What materializes when these experiences are negative? Teens with physical disabilities face such experiences through micro-aggressions. Desexualization, denial of privacy, and denial of identity are just some of the ways that disabled teens experience the world around them. In these
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