title: Forbidden suffering: the Pollyanna syndrome of the disabled and their families.
abstract: Has suffering become an ugly word in the normalization debate? Are the disabled and their families forced into a Pollyanna culture in order to be acknowledged and accepted in good company as the worthy disabled? This essay poses a controversial question: I would like to start a debate and ask whether normalization also has an unseen, ideological downside.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Special Education, University of Oslo, Norway.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Saetersdal
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000523:psychology*; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D010146:Pain / Q000523:psychology*; D011788:Quality of Life