{"id":1500,"date":"2007-02-26T20:27:28","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T20:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1500"},"modified":"2007-02-26T20:27:28","modified_gmt":"2007-02-26T20:27:28","slug":"but_hes_so_well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1500","title":{"rendered":"“But He’s So Well-Adjusted…”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Minnesota Public Radio has an interview with Emily Rapp<\/a>, whose book Poster Child<\/i><\/a> details her life with a congenital disability. In the interview, Rapp says, “I had to be super-normal to be accepted as normal.” I can so relate. While I was naturally inclined to like school when I was a kid, I was also motivated to do well so that I could go to college, get a job, and do all the “normal” things that were expected of my peers. By doing all those things, I thought I could minimize my disability in the eyes of others and not be thought of as different or unusual. I came to the slow realization that I couldn’t spend my whole life trying to pass as some personification of American male normalcy, but I’m probably still dealing with the remnants of that way of thinking. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Minnesota Public Radio has an interview with Emily Rapp, whose book Poster Child details her life with a congenital disability. In the interview, Rapp says, “I had to be super-normal to be accepted as normal.” I can so relate. While I was naturally inclined to like school when I was a kid, I was also […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-oc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}