Comments on: Living your dreams? http://transabled.org/thoughts/living-your-dreams.htm Talking about Body Integrity Identity Disorder - Just another disability! Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:21:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-beta2 hourly 1 By: Claire http://transabled.org/thoughts/living-your-dreams.htm/comment-page-1#comment-11623 Claire Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:41:55 +0000 http://transabled.org/thoughts/living-your-dreams.htm#comment-11623 @wantwheels: There is something to be said for that. Once you start wheeling, you don't want to stop. The way I explain it is this: you get used to unhappiness, but once you get a taste of happiness you want to hang on to it. Only you can decide if you want to try to maintain control over it or not. I finally caved in, and though in some respects life has indeed become more complicated, on the other hand, I feel so much relief and I feel like myself. I wouldn't go back. @wantwheels: There is something to be said for that. Once you start wheeling, you don’t want to stop. The way I explain it is this: you get used to unhappiness, but once you get a taste of happiness you want to hang on to it. Only you can decide if you want to try to maintain control over it or not. I finally caved in, and though in some respects life has indeed become more complicated, on the other hand, I feel so much relief and I feel like myself. I wouldn’t go back.

]]> By: wantwheels http://transabled.org/thoughts/living-your-dreams.htm/comment-page-1#comment-11575 wantwheels Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:42:59 +0000 http://transabled.org/thoughts/living-your-dreams.htm#comment-11575 I have been dreaming of wheeling but Im not sure if I can bring myself to it. I feel like a person with an alchohol addiction who daily thinks about the drink but somehow survives each day not doing it. If I start I probably won't be able to stop. I am engaged to a man (we live together) and although I've hinted to my interest in wheelchairs, he knows not to the slightest degree my intense desire to live as a para. Do I continue to try to maintain some control on this desire? Or do I let it out of the box? Argh...if it only were easy. I have been dreaming of wheeling but Im not sure if I can bring myself to it. I feel like a person with an alchohol addiction who daily thinks about the drink but somehow survives each day not doing it. If I start I probably won’t be able to stop. I am engaged to a man (we live together) and although I’ve hinted to my interest in wheelchairs, he knows not to the slightest degree my intense desire to live as a para. Do I continue to try to maintain some control on this desire? Or do I let it out of the box? Argh…if it only were easy.

]]> By: Ronald http://transabled.org/thoughts/living-your-dreams.htm/comment-page-1#comment-8655 Ronald Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:10:28 +0000 http://transabled.org/thoughts/living-your-dreams.htm#comment-8655 I wanted to respond sooner, but was away for the weekend. 2 times to the hospital with anxiety attacks in one week, you've gotta do something. The consequences of not wheeling as you wish will certainly tear you up in a short time. Your mental health is not worth what other people think, period. Screw them. Why give a damn about some passerby, you do not know, will never know and will never pass by again? When you want somebody's opinion, you tell them what it is and that is that. I wanted to respond sooner, but was away for the weekend.

2 times to the hospital with anxiety attacks in one week, you’ve gotta do something. The consequences of not wheeling as you wish will certainly tear you up in a short time. Your mental health is not worth what other people think, period. Screw them. Why give a damn about some passerby, you do not know, will never know and will never pass by again? When you want somebody’s opinion, you tell them what it is and that is that.

]]> By: Claire http://transabled.org/thoughts/living-your-dreams.htm/comment-page-1#comment-8462 Claire Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:49:21 +0000 http://transabled.org/thoughts/living-your-dreams.htm#comment-8462 Thanks guys. :o) Rorschach, I'm not surprised. Deafening silence can say as much as 30 comments. Plus I have not been doing a very good job responding to my comments so everyone may have simply given up on me. Who knows? I'll try to do better on that score. :o) Thanks guys. :o)

Rorschach, I’m not surprised. Deafening silence can say as much as 30 comments.

Plus I have not been doing a very good job responding to my comments so everyone may have simply given up on me. Who knows?

I’ll try to do better on that score. :o)

]]> By: Rorschach http://transabled.org/thoughts/living-your-dreams.htm/comment-page-1#comment-8420 Rorschach Mon, 17 Sep 2007 06:22:38 +0000 http://transabled.org/thoughts/living-your-dreams.htm#comment-8420 I'm surprised this entry hasn't gotten as much attention as your others. Great entry though. I love the sentiment. I’m surprised this entry hasn’t gotten as much attention as your others. Great entry though. I love the sentiment.

]]> By: mixedbreed http://transabled.org/thoughts/living-your-dreams.htm/comment-page-1#comment-7729 mixedbreed Thu, 13 Sep 2007 06:22:18 +0000 http://transabled.org/thoughts/living-your-dreams.htm#comment-7729 Heartening post, Claire. Thanks. Heartening post, Claire. Thanks.

]]>