ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the author's embodiment and experiences with disability and chronic illness. It begins by contextualizing disability in general and multiple sclerosis (MS) in particular, and education and employment in the Canadian context. The chapter discusses the (re)imagining crip futures in the classroom. Employment rate is negatively correlated to severity of disability. Disability Studies (DS), which is more established in Britain and Australia, is a growing academic field across the United States and Canada. In addition, the social exclusion of disabled persons and the low rates of representation of persons with disabilities in professions such as teaching mean that our presence at the front of the class is often confusing. The idea of normalcy as well as 'ableist attitudes and barriers' inform the picture of the university community in the minds of students before they even get to university; a picture that usually does not feature professors with disabilities.
