ABSTRACT
Disabled young people, like other young people, are involved in a set of everyday embodied practices, which are influenced by dynamics of fitting in and being like others. By drawing from qualitative research carried out in the North-East of England (UK), with disabled young people with a diagnosis of cerebral palsy, we will explore how regulatory dynamics associated with being like others in order to belong influence the way in which they background and foreground embodied difference. We will also acknowledge practices that challenge and resist attempts to be recognised as ordinary and, through this, consider the limits to societal comfort with different embodiments.
