It s not the typical group of non-disabled people where the disabled person stands out sorely. It s not the typical group of disabled people which wallows in self-pity. So the anti-group gets together, discusses current events, debates philosophical issues, swaps gossip, and just plain ol hangs out. Everyone is suspicious of doing something where a group is part of it. We all like the idea of being in an anti-group.
Some people love hard-boiled eggs.
They could form a hard-boiled egg lovers club. But even if they did, their central commonality would still be less precarious than the commonality uniting the ten people gathered in the backroom of the Center for Independent Living. The group is united in that all members have a real or imagined disability, and as such other important traits, traits like intelligence, traits that usually don t deviate much in a single location, follow weird distributions. The anti-group said goodbye to the bell curve and smashed together the extremes. Here, people like Ed and Duwayne are equals.