Invisible Impairments: Dilemmas of Concealment and Disclosure

By S. Lingsom. 2008

95 citations recorded by the source corpus.

People with invisible impairments have choices as whether or not to reveal or conceal their impairments in social interaction. They may pass for “normal” if they silence impairment and disability experiences. Social conventions support silence. Disclosing impairments may occur in many circumstances, for many reasons and may have many ramifications. People with invisible impairments and the dilemmas they face have received little attention in disability research. This article discusses concealment and disclosure of invisible impairments as ongoing processes with an emphasis on performance, motivation and context.

Subfields: Demography, Safety Research

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/c83acb8e613e9e92a952ce46e91f3ca09d2e6c2c

Citations in the corpus

• The Experiences of Microaggressions against Women with Visible and Invisible Disabilities (2019, unknown): “It is possible that the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990) and its amendments (2008) have led much of the public to believe that disability has been “handled.””