Little is done to challenge this discursive exclusion in extraordinary narratives, which far from claiming access to privileged narratives of normalcy, position disabled children as super-human, exceptional, otherworldly, and even, “not quite human” (Beck 2011, 74). Extraordinary disabled children elevate their parents’ moral and/or spiritual lives simply because they are disabled, and because their parents actively shift their understanding of disability from something tragic to something that has moral and spiritual significance.
