The purpose of this study is to explore a subjective and essential meaning from the experiences of choice
and self-determination of people with disabilities. For this, using van Manen's phenomenological qualitative
method, this study intended to understand the experiences of their self-determination through information
obtained from people with disabilities. The following main themes were extracted from the experiences
of self-determination of people with disabilities who were interviewed: 'embodiment struggle', 'frustration
and kept silence', 'holding existence's worth', 'building self-ability'. The core theme on the
self-determination's experiences of people with disabilities is the independent lives which is being challenged
as a frustrated being by social resistances. This results will contribute to expand the thoughts and recognition
of a choice and self-determination of people with disabilities beyond objective and limited that concepts
based on rationalism. Besides, the implication of this study's results is in providing basic material to policy
making and actual practices developing the self-determination of people with disabilities.