by Sean - 30 January 2007
I was recently asked an interesting question in an email: "If it were possible to take a pill to forget everything about BIID and transabledism and your desire for a SCI would you take it? Take the pill and you’re just regular AB Sean?" This is by no means an easy question to answer, and quite obviously the answer would vary from person to person. It’s a question I’ve asked myself several times, which never has a 110% certain answer.
Red pill, blue pill continues »
by Sean - 28 January 2007
There are many different aspects to being transabled. Some are transabled, merely "wannabe" (I say merely, but this is not a negative). Others must pretend in some fashion to handle the stresses of BIID. Others yet don’t have the need to have an impairment, they simply pretend one way or another. I work very hard at not passing judgement on anyone. I don’t want people to judge me, I feel it’s not my place to judge others. But I disgress from my thought for today. Forgetting the folks who simply "pretend", I’d like to talk a bit about the relationship between pretending and needing an impairment. Or rather, my perception of that relationship.
Pretending vs Wannabe continues »
by Sean -
I recently spent a night in hospital under "observation". Towards the end of the day at work, my arm suddenly stopped working properly. It felt very "light", I had no real control over it, no strength in it either. My speech was slurred, I had a nasty headache, I was lightheaded. All signs of a stroke. My partner was prompt to get me to the hospital via ambulance.
Bit of a scare continues »
by Sean - 27 January 2007
A dozen years ago, there appeared to be almost no women that were transabled… In any case, there weren’t many at all that were interacting with me in the wannabe circles at the time. I thought that there weren’t many transabled women, other than the couple I had met here and there. But in recent months, I seem to be coming across more and more wannabe women.
Women coming out of the woodwork continues »
by Claire - 26 January 2007
I have been in good spirits in the week since my
pretending trip. The one exception is the day after I returned, I had
what I now call a post-trip crash. This happened to me after my first trip
as well, although I didn’t write about it at the time. This time, I think
it’s something that needs to be looked at. Another pretender has told me he experiences the same thing. Any would-be pretender contemplating
getting his or her first chair should know what kinds of things can happen.
Post-trip crash continues »