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This Is Fun!
646 words/one page so far - more fiction than I've written in a long time, more words of any kind that I've written all at once, and more fun than I've had for even longer. This is a blast!
Bed before my spine snaps. -
Because I'm Clearly A Masochist...
...I've decided to have a stab at NaNoWriMo this year, just to see if I can do it. Because I don't have enough to do this month. ;-) But this is something just for me, so why not? And being the perpetual procrastinator that I am I waited til today to decide on this, cutting out 5 days from my time ( Read more... ) -
A Book Recommendation
I just finished reading "The Boy In The Striped Pajamas", by John Boyne. Anyone who has read it will have a fair idea of what I'm feeling right now. If you haven't read it, please do, it is an extraordinarily powerful novel. -
Anti-depressants Query
For people who take antidepressants (and/or people with CP or other disabilities), what ones have worked for you that haven't also interacted badly with the cerebral palsy? What's out there that won't make my balance or spasiticty worse? What have people taken that have had bad side effects that affect your CP ( Read more... ) -
Newsflash!
People with disabilities, children with disabilities are not burdens!!!! We are fucking human beings and we are no more `burdensome' than the rest of you. (We also don't have `special needs', we have the same needs as anyone else - they just have to be approached creatively in many instances - but that's a separate rant for another time.) If the ( Read more... ) -
Another week begins...
I'm sick of being responsible. I'm sick of helping others. I'm often the youngest person in the room at anything I organise - but I'm the one with the most responsibility. And what I have been doing is being taken over by self-absorbed `positive-thinking' (this is different to naturally happy, positive people - they do not take it personally if ( Read more... ) -
Help! I'm dyyyyying!!!!
My hay fever is horrendous. Itchy, woozy headacey head, snuffles. The tablets that usually work, don't. I'm miserable. Does anyone have some suggestions/miracle fixits they can let me in on. Please!! -
Don't...
I came across the following poem recently on http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=205#comment-4803:
"They told me:
Don’t be ugly,
Don’t be pretty.
Don’t be stupid,
Don’t be smart.
Don’t be loud,
Don’t be shy.
Don’t be here,
Don’t be there.
Don’t be wrong,
Don’ ( Read more... ) -
A Rant On "Help"
This short - and incomplete - rant was prompted by several recent encounters and discussions .
Humans helping other humans is part of the social contract we should all be participating in, but I object to people who insist on `helping' me when I clearly don't need help, simply because they assume that having CP makes me incompetent, and because ( Read more... )
