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The Handicapped : By One of Them

The Atlantic Monthly : v.108 no. 3, September 1911, p. 320-329. Published anonymously, later credited to Randolph Bourne, a generational essayist and social critic of the 1910s. "In The Handicapped, Bourne explores the inner thoughts of a disabled person, the way the world perceives that person, and how a disabled person forms his or her identity. Throughout, he brings up the lack of confidence that is endemic to disabled individuals, describing how, as a young person, he felt out of place “when the world became one of dances and parties and social evenings and boy-and-girl attachments – the world of youth”. -- Christopher Rearden, The Guardian, January 9, 2018.

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