ABSTRACT
Inclusion phobia creates an abstract template of difference, whose specific outgroup occupants periodically change and are reinvented. This chapter is about how learning disability has come to fit the template. The fact that we started with intelligence and are only now moving on to the outgroup is not because we are following normal textbook procedure, in which intelligence is a given and learning disability, as the absence of it, trails along behind. 1 That would be to fall in with the intelligent ingroup’s view of itself as a natural species, from which exceptions to the rule derive. Here, the purpose of putting intelligence first was entirely different. It was to demonstrate that the concept of intelligence too is a primary product of inclusion phobia.
