If you have a disability you know a lot about abjection. You also know irony. You say things like: “Well if Jesus could cure a blind man, why didn’t he just get rid of blindness?” “What’s a self-respecting man-god good for after all?”
Contrarian irony was unlocked in me quite early. I’m inordinately suspicious of cant. (For my blind readers that’s “cant” with a c and not with a k–though I have my suspicions about him as well.)
Planet of the Blind 