Karin Hitselberger is a disability rights activist and freelance writer. She has cerebral palsy: a permanent movement disorder that affects one’s coordination and whose symptoms include stiff or weak muscles and tremors. Hitselberger blogs about the intersection of disability, fashion, and body acceptance. In this post, Hitselberger takes issue with the language sometimes used in discussing cerebral palsy and disability.
As you read, take notes on the author’s perspective on disability and ableism
Mrs. Radley dies Scout believes that the world is ending because it is snowing and she has never seen snow before. Jem and scout ran out of snow so they used mud as well.
