« The reflection on normality haunts me to the point of passion. It assures me many torments, many injuries. At first I was burning to be like everyone else. I would have given everything to finally become normal. »
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Alexandre Jollien
The Man's Job |
Alexandre Jollien
The Man's Job
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« What most people perceive is the strangeness of the gestures, the slowness of the words, the disturbing approach. What's behind it, they don't know. Spasms, rictus, loss of balance, they hide behind a clear and sharp judgment, without appeal: here is a moron. It's hard to change that first impression, painful to be reduced »
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Alexandre Jollien
The Man's Job |
Alexandre Jollien
The Man's Job
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« Very quickly, I had the intuition that by fleeing disability, one isolates itself. He is there, we must welcome him as a fifth member, to deal with him. To do this, the knowledge of its weaknesses seems to me to be paramount. »
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Alexandre Jollien
Praise for weakness |
Alexandre Jollien
Praise for weakness
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