Katie Rose Guest Pryal taught at the university level for twelve years without ever considering seeking disability accommodations. As a law professor, she knew her disability would have been legally recognized. And yet, she did not “out” herself as a person with a psychological disability until she left academia and published an essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education. This book’s collection of essays encourages readers to recognize the problems caused by stigma, hostility, ignorance, and suspicion. Pryal argues for making “the radical decision that suspicion is not going to be your way of thinking any more” (112).
Pryal, Katie Rose Guest. Life of the Mind Interrupted: Essays on Mental Health and Disability in Higher Education. Snowraven Books, 2017, p. 54.