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Edge of Oblivion

by Dante - 5 April 2008

I am here as someone, with the aid of another, who has come to discover that I am affected by BIID, a term that I never knew existed until recently.

I had for many years prior to finding a proper name had the seeming need to be deaf. I don’t know where it came from or definitively why…I just felt that way and have been for years. Logic points to my experiences with other persons that are deaf/Deaf, and also a family member that worked in an educational establishment with deaf/Deaf children as potential triggers for this need to exist. I couldn’t tell you if that is true or not, the need is so much more primal, in my opinion.

The joys of wheeling

by Sean - 2 April 2008

Coming on the heels of my previous entry which was so bleak, I thought I’d talk a bit about the joy I experience using a wheelchair. Wheeling is not solving my problems, far from it, but it is most certainly easing things up significantly and I find a lot of joy in many aspects of it. This is not to say I don’t also find some aspects of using a wheelchair "no good", but by and large the equation is favourable for me when I use the chair.