I have spent the past 11 years fending off misconceptions that I must hate my life and that I must be angry or depressed about my son. Often those misconceptions come from people without direct experience with disability – sometimes I explain, but mostly I just continue to live my life as authentically as possible, [...]
Filed under: musings on December 20th, 2009 | 15 Comments »
(I got it! It came to me this morning. And it’s so very unCanadian.)
I am not going to help you through your discomfort and make it all better. I can’t. And I don’t want to. ‘This’ is not just happening to me – you are here too, seeing, reacting, feeling. Something is happening to you [...]
Filed under: musings on December 9th, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Sometimes I cheer people up. Not because I try to, but because sometimes people will compare their own stresses to what they assume are mine and will be drawn to ‘count their blessings’. I suppose I should live and let live, but I am drawn to comment…
(I find this type of post hard to write, [...]
Filed under: musings, social on December 5th, 2009 | 12 Comments »