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Is transability to be cured?
Written by Sean on Friday, May 13, 2005
Most people who know me and who also know about my wannabe feelings seem to automatically assume it’s bad and that I should look at getting rid of those feelings. Is it so? Is their judgement call about the negativity of my feelings valid?
Isn’t this judgement call similar to those well meaning people that assume that paraplegia is a fate worse than death? Isn’t it just like the many people thinking that living in a caravan park something bad in and of itself? These are value calls, and generally not true.
Who are you to judge my life based on your limited understanding of my "condition"? Who are you to decree that because I have some unusual emotions, they must be eradicated? Who are you to decide that because someone has a disability they can’t have a good life?
Disability rights folks often explain that the disability in and of itself is not an issue. They point out that the disability is a problem when facing a non-accessible and over-judgemental society. Based on that stance (which I happen to agree with, BTW), transability is not something to cure at all costs.
But the problem in that line of thinking is that transability, as you may have picked up by reading the rest of this site, the problem is that there is a lot of negativity that comes with transability. Depression, pain, hurt, anguish, shame, etc.
Are these negative feelings intrinseque to transability? Or are they a side effect that could be removed if there was a proper "treatment" for transability? And when I say treatment, I don’t mean necessarily a cure to get rid of the feeling. I mean something to be done to mitigate the condition. A bit like a wheelchair mitigates paraplegia. You’re still paralysed, but you can get around. I don’t know, just kinda brainstorming here.
But… The thing is, while I want to not feel the intense hurt I’m feeling, I’m not ready to agree that my "thing" is a negative thing.
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