Outriggers
by Chloe - 14 April 2010
Assistive devices had made their way into every aspect of my life except for one. The time had come for my first adaptive skiing lesson.
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Am I Doing It Right?
by Sean - 22 June 2009
I will always remember the first time I met my late wife. We weren’t married then, of course. She picked me up at the airport, then drove to her place. We stopped at a liquor store on the way. I was so worried about doing my transfer from the car to the chair properly, and she was just laughing at me. She said "there’s no right way to transfer".
Am I Doing It Right? continues »Perched On The Doorsteps Of Other People’s Lives
by Cath - 1 February 2009
I think I have lived like this as long as I can remember. Even in the midst of my own nuclear family I wasn’t part of it. My parents wrapped up in each other, my older sister too busy demanding and getting what was available of their attention, at least when she wasn’t fighting with me. And there was I, quietly trying to please – them, my teachers, anyone who would be my friend. Maybe I tried too hard.
Perched On The Doorsteps Of Other People’s Lives continues »Plan A
by Chloe - 31 December 2008
I have been thinking about how to conform my body to my paralysed self image since I was five years old. The plans come in three categories. I call them Plan A, Plan B and Plan C.
Plan A continues »Coming Out
by Cath - 28 December 2008
It is Friday evening and I am sitting in my lovely sleek Ti-Lite ZRA looking at the blank page on my word processor and wondering where to start. It’s not like me to be stuck for words – I am a linguist by training, if not these days by profession. Friends would laugh at my unaccustomed inarticulacy, but then they don’t know that I am here and I may never get round to telling them, though I would dearly love to some day.
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