ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the hegemonic taken-for-granted character of the disability-as-a-problem frame. It focuses on how this frame is produced against a background of a notion of the 'natural' or 'normal' body, that is, a body conceived of by science as in need, and worthy, of description – how does it work, what are its essential features?. Framed as people with a disability, individuals become those who do not live through their bodies, minds, senses, or emotions, but with them and with them assert claims to personhood. This is the socio-political consequence of understanding disability as problem in need of a solution that we now witness in almost all traces of disability conceptions today. In short, the problem to which 'disability is a problem in need of a solution' points is individuality – the problem of individuality generates the solution of 'disability is a problem in need of a solution'.
