Kafer argues that it is compulsory able-bodiedness and able-mindedness that is of concern, not “individual sick and disabled people’s relationships to particular medical interventions,” and that “a desire for a cure is not necessarily an anti-crip or anti-disability rights and justice position.” She clarifies that she is not talking about cures but “speaking here of a curative imaginary, an understanding of disability that not only expects and assumes intervention but also cannot imagine or comprehend anything other than intervention.”33 The fact that many individuals desire cures, do not want
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