College English Jul 2004

My Learning Disability: A (Digressive) Essay

Andrea Freud Loewenstein

Abstract

The author recalls her struggles and adaptations—to school, to anti-Semitism, to her family’s history, to her feelings for other women, to her learning disability—before there were terms to make what she experienced a familiar part of our discourse. She suggests that,because the words that might have exempted her from effort or locked her into one category or another were never spoken, she found ways to do what was required and methods of coping that have served her well in life.

Journal
College English
Published
2004-07-01
DOI
10.58680/ce20042855
Open Access
Closed
Topics
disability studies multilingual writers

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