Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal, Volume 15, Issue 3
Disability and Shame
Special Issue Forum: Creative Works
Liminality
Lisa Boskovich, MS
Chapman University
California, United States

Abstract: The shame surrounding the construct of disability strikes at the very context of an 
individual's soul. The overcoming of shame associated with a learning disability diagnosis is 
a journey. To be free requires the inner looking into the core of self, once viewed and 
acknowledged healing enters. In this journey the individual is held by hands greater than their 
own. The path of healing is an individual passage and choice.

Liminality
Wraps the tide,
Passing through my fingertips.
Slowly and gently, 
After weeks,
Of rough seas,
Hard fought dreams,
And mixed memories.
Drought filled,
Writing weeks,
And cried tears.
This gray state,
Continues to challenge,
Sweeping past,
Inner victories,
And passed over notions,
Of grace handed,
And grace received.
For the foundation of self,
Ever is it changing.
Invited guests,
Challenge the circumference,
Of an ever- widening circle.
My soul calls,
Home.

Lisa Boskovich, M.S., is a Doctoral Candidate in the Donna Ford Attallah College of 
Educational Studies at Chapman University in Orange, California with an emphasis in 
Disability Studies. Her research interests include, fathers who have a child on the autism 

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spectrum, and the phenomenological master narratives of individuals with learning 
disabilities. Lisa is currently working as a Research Assistant at the Thompson Policy Institute 
on Disability and Autism.

Liminality by Lisa Boskovich is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Based on a work at https://rdsjournal.org. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at https://www.rds.hawaii.edu.
      
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