On disability, humour and rabbit holes: a personal reflection

This Current Issues piece offers a very personal reflection on the issue of disability and humour. It is about author's relationship with humour in context an acquired neurological disability. explores topic While not novel theme within research, author approaches it from perspective her own experience living The article highlights some complexities disability, noting that line between offensiveness can be extremely thin. discusses two particular ‘storylines’ identified by Bertilsdotter Rosquist (2012) – ‘socially critical storyline’ ‘the storyline “disability humour”’. adds third storyline, which happily co-exist, but without necessarily being direct object neurologist Dr Allan Ropper has described neurology patients as disappearing ‘down rabbit hole’. For author, way adapting to ‘rabbit hole’ down it.