Negalia pažymėtas išgyvenamas laikas
Time Lived with Disability

Summary/Abstract: This article examines ways in which subjects with a disability perceive the lifeworld with regard to their attitudes towards physicality and time. The strongest reflections on the time experiences are characteristic of the individuals who acquired their disability at a later stage of their life, because they underwent the changes not only in their corporeal identity, but also in their experiences of time. People with disabilities reinterpret their past events in the present according to newly formed interpretational patterns. The obvious difference in the interpretation of the past lifetime among the people with disabilities depends on the nature of their disability (congenital or acquired later) as well as on the factor of the social isolation/re-socialization. People who have disabilities from an early age perceive the history of their experiences through a rather consistent prism of the conventional biographical categories. They highlight the significant experiences associated with the disability that provide them with the meaning and sense of order in their current life situations. The individuals who acquired the disability at a later stage of their lives tend to divide the lived time in two biographical periods: before and after the disability. It indicates that for these persons their disability is the most significant event that determines the further course of their lives.

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