Comments on: Elusive Acceptance http://transabled.org/thoughts/elusive-acceptance.htm Talking about Body Integrity Identity Disorder - Just another disability! Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:42:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-beta2 hourly 1 By: oophodae http://transabled.org/thoughts/elusive-acceptance.htm/comment-page-1#comment-522 oophodae Sun, 14 Jan 2007 08:27:26 +0000 http://transabled.org/uncategorized/elusive-acceptance.htm#comment-522 "Perhaps it’s like this: just at the paraplegic must accept that he will never walk again, so I must accept that I will never be paraplegic." At first this sounds very reasonable but at a closer look it is not plausible. Why? A paraplegic has no chance for cure, whereas you CAN become paraplegic. Why torture yourself if you can change your situation. The paraplegic CANNOT change his situation, you CAN. So, why accept "you will never be paraplegic"? This simply means you are not willing to change your situation, you chose to stay being a wannabe. Again, you have the chance to become paraplegic, so no need for you to accept your situation, a paraplegic would be happy if he/she ever had such a chance. It may harder for us, but we have the chance to change our situation, if we don´t it´s our fault. That´s my oppionion at last, though I have to honour of course becoming paraplegic is much harder than having an amputation. “Perhaps it’s like this: just at the paraplegic must accept that he will never walk again, so I must accept that I will never be paraplegic.”

At first this sounds very reasonable but at a closer look it is not plausible. Why? A paraplegic has no chance for cure, whereas you CAN become paraplegic. Why torture yourself if you can change your situation. The paraplegic CANNOT change his situation, you CAN. So, why accept “you will never be paraplegic”? This simply means you are not willing to change your situation, you chose to stay being a wannabe. Again, you have the chance to become paraplegic, so no need for you to accept your situation, a paraplegic would be happy if he/she ever had such a chance. It may harder for us, but we have the chance to change our situation, if we don´t it´s our fault. That´s my oppionion at last, though I have to honour of course becoming paraplegic is much harder than having an amputation.

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