Examined Life

While reading this interview I was given a new outlook on the human body and what exactly is normal. I had always had this false sense of what was normal and came to realize that this word has a different meaning to everyone. Taylor states in the interview, "I've always seen the body as a creative tool and that we're taught to use this tool in certain ways" (204). This stuck out to me because I had never thought to myself that everyone has had to learn to do different everyday tasks their own way, disabled or not. I had always thought that being disabled was so different and tough because these people had to learn how to do things a different way. What i realize now is that if they never knew any other way, then their way of completing a certain task is 'normal'. So, what do you feel is the true definition of normalcy?