ABSTRACT
The participatory development of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities meant people with disabilities could bring their testimonial knowledge and theoretical sophistication to bear on a successful claim for more embodied formulations of personhood and legal capacity. In order to protect against 'ethical loneliness', space for many more stories to be told is still needed, to render visible the 'harder to see' violence and consequences, so that the 'surrounding world' will learn to hear and understand. The tyranny of needing to have the right consciousness which serves to justify the violence of forced treatment enacted upon mad people. Miranda Fricker uses the term 'testimonial injustice' to explore how the testimony of individuals belonging to particular groups may be disqualified: Testimonial injustice occurs when prejudice causes a hearer to give a deflated level of credibility to a speaker's word.
