It’s notable to me that intellectual disability is sometimes left out of these conversations—feminist conversations as well as disability studies conversations. I suspect this is in part because people with intellectual disabilities don’t often write their own memoirs or analyses. I believe only two books on the market were written—not co-written, not extensively edited, but written or dictated—by people with Down syndrome: Jason Kingsley and Mitchell Levitz’s Count Us In: Growing Up with Down Syndrome (Harcourt, 1994) and Megan Adler’s recently released Up Sydrome: It’s All About the Attitude (self-published, 2013). Because people with Down syndrome aren’t attending the conferences, writing in the academic journals, or heading up activist efforts, they’re often ignored—not with hostility, but with a subconscious invoking of what Peggy McIntosh calls “the
