2011 Volume 4 Pages 96-110
This paper aims to consider the meaning-world of severely disabled people. In the 1990s, severely disabled people were living in poor and miserable surroundings. Most of the severely disabled people were accommodated in asylums. There they put up stubborn resistance to the power that infringed on their human rights. Soon a word permeated among them. It was “independent living”. Thus, a representative story of independent living has been completed. The story was that they would live in the regional community in spite of their severe disabilities. They insisted that they were able to manage without help, and that they would make their own lives.
The story was handed down from generation to generation. In the 1970s the story was persuasive. But the surroundings that the severely disabled people lived in were changed. This paper considers whether the story is still persuasive for severely disabled people, or not.
