Lennard J. Davis in The Body and Physical Difference. At left, Total Idiocy. Woodcuts from the 18th century from Quaint Woodcuts, Theodore Menten, 1974. By definition, of course, we believe the person with a stigma is not quite human. People with disabilities are said to be fated or unsalvageable and thus somehow stubbornly inhuman.
Freaks are the animal hybrid skulking at the edge of the jungle.
Make no mistake about it, the beast under construction is the Norm.