The Cultural Value of Disability… & Star Trek

ByMeriah Reading Time: 5 minutes

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down is a the story of a fiercely frustrating cultural clash, the crux of which lies the differing perceptions of one particular disability: epilepsy. In the story, a Hmong refugee child living with her family in Central California has epilepsy, complete with grand mal seizures. Epilepsy, viewed within the…