Autobiographical reports in research on people with disabilities

The articles looks at assumptions of research where the central role is played by a source of data (autobiographical report), means of application of descriptive categories (flexibility, sensitization, bridging) and the method of arrangement of particular dimensions of autobiographical reports (mapping). The reflections are divided into several parts, where the most important reflections are related to a sensitising nature of the category of everyday experience and scientific description and the relationship between the lifeworld (Lebenswelt) of people with disabilities and the method of mapping actions of their socialised bodies. On one hand, research procedures embedded in ethics are to free researchers from closed formal categories. On the other hand, scientific descriptions based on non-stiffening “transfers” of specialist discourses, but dynamic mapping of milieu of people with disabilities, enable a better understanding of the lifeworld of those people.