Abstract
In this paper, I argue that using autoethnography as a vehicle to narrate the disabled self could be therapeutic for disabled persons, since it could unlock the unconscious, silenced parts of the self. Disabled persons often keep quiet about the thorny segments of their lives, because they learn that it is too anxiety-provoking for nondisabled listeners. Yet, it is often in the painful stories of disabled persons where external and internal oppressions meet. Uncovering hidden truths will inevitably reveal an inaccessible and often hostile world and the myriad ways in which these find root in the psyche of disabled persons.