Where two fears intersect, there’s disability. Its figuration is the Centaur. And so in the public’s mind crippled-ness is untamed, quick, and too much like us. Culture, social construction, these are aggregate and substitute terms for the intersection of primal fright. Disability is a social construct to be sure, but its a secondary one. In the lead, half man, half horse, is the fear of the capricious body—the one that looks like us but won’t behave.
Planet of the Blind 