Disability In Deborah Stone's The Disabled State

In The Disabled State, Deborah Stone's main thesis is that disability is an administrative category in the welfare state that grants people with disabilities (PWD) special "privileges" and exemptions from obligations of citizenship. Her use of the term privilege when describing disability is provocative and sets the tone that she wishes to challenge popular held beliefs and conceptions of disability in modern Western society as a medical condition. She is interested in answering why social institutions respond to some individuals differently, rather than what is different in some individuals. For this paper, I plan to analyze Stone's arguments presented in her book and demonstrate that her thesis is worthy of acceptance.
Her first premise is,