Memoir as Counter Narrative: using creative nonfiction to explore visual impairment and mental illness and challenge dominant models of disability

这个实践研究项目将制作一本回忆录，探索卡罗琳精神疾病和视力障碍的生活经历。它将对围绕残疾和阐明精神和身体不健康的禁忌的辩论作出原创性贡献，并进行干预。卡洛琳将用创造性的非小说创作一种反叙事，挑战主流残疾模式的不足之处。这项工作将有助于公众的“自己的声音”辩论，旨在通过分享少数群体的生活经验来多样化讲故事，以及残疾人运动的战斗口号“没有我们就没有我们”（查尔顿，1998）。随附的批判性评论将探索创造性非小说提供的资源，作为通过第一人称叙述提高公众意识的工具。

This practice research project will produce a memoir exploring Caroline's lived experience of mental ill health and visual impairment. It will be an original contribution to, and intervention in, debates surrounding disability and the taboos of articulating mental and physical ill health. Caroline will use creative nonfiction to produce a counter narrative that challenges the inadequacy of dominant models of disability. This work will contribute to the public 'OwnVoices' debate aiming to diversify storytelling by sharing the lived experience of minority groups, and the disabled movement's rallying cry "nothing about us without us" (Charlton, 1998). The accompanying critical commentary will explore the resources creative nonfiction offers as a vehicle for raising public awareness through first person narration.