i don't know that i would have ben able to articulate that idea four minutes ago. No, because i was not self aware enough to realize when i was on the wrong side of that threshold. There's a incident that starts the book where i'm at a bar and i'm sitting with these two friends of mine. They're both in the philosophy programm with me. One is an ethical philosopher. And it wasn't the first time that i've heard people make this argument,. But it was like the first time where i was just like, ah, man. Want to have a drink? Like, can we just have a drink?"
Chloé Cooper Jones is a philosopher and journalist whose work has appeared in GQ, The Verge, The Believer and many other publications. Her new book is Easy Beauty.
”I literally didn't talk to anyone in my life about disability until I was, like, 30. Ever. Not my husband, not my friends, as little as possible to my own mother. I had this very bad idea that what I needed to do in every single social situation was wait until people could unsee my body…. And it was all in service of trying to be truly recognized or truly seen. And, of course, what was happening is I was involved in a complete act of self erasure because my body and my real self are related…. There is no real me without my physical self…. I did not think I was going to ever write about this, but once I started, it felt like I met myself for the first time.”
Show notes:
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices