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My research attempts to posit a ficto-critical analysis of the disability experience. It seeks to overcome the dialectic flaws in academic disability discourse through transcending rigid models of disability which ground themselves within oversimplified theoretical constructions posited from narrow, and therefore, limited perspectives. In carrying out this academic inquiry, this thesis affirms the premise that auto-ethnographic Creative Writing can be motivated ficto-critically as a valid philosophical methodology. It employs this methodology to carry out a phenomenological critique of the disability experience constructing a theoretical analysis through practice-based research. It reflexively articulates this research through a short story cycle of philosophical fiction which complements a more traditional exegesis of this ficto-critical analysis. In articulating new understanding of both form, and subject matter, it conceptualises the author's creative praxis, not merely as narrative, but as a dialectic platform for theorising the broader nature of disability, as a metaphysical abstraction, acknowledging the nuances within individual phenomenology. Using this methodological combination, it sets out to ask questions about this lived experience with the aid of works of philosophy and thus, thereby interrogating the limitations of this particular methodology in creating this dialectic platform.