It's A Love Story, Baby
This is a difficult subject to talk about, so I'll just rip it like a band aid. In my experience, people tend to feel uncomfortable talking about love and sex in the context of disability. I for one feel like there's a knife cutting through my throat. This subject is so taboo that people aren't even aware of it being taboo. I remember being a kid and already being deeply concerned about the implications of my disability in my sexual life. I have thought of sex as an expressio
Boxed
I was having a conversation with a friend about our different feelings of disconnection from our body, and I tried to explain to her how some of my disconnections come from the limitation of my movements, which is something I have not noticed before, as I was only vaguely aware of this until said friend got me to think about it. I have a very active imagination and I imagine all sorts of situations; sometimes even while experiencing a situation, I'm simultaneously imagining i
Euphoria Doesn't Go Well With Wheels
There I was again in a new class, full of hope of getting to know the people who share the same academic interests as me, and maybe make a long lasting bond with people I can connect to. I can't even begin to count how many times this sequence happened in all my college years, usually it goes on for several weeks in every new class, and interestingly enough, I never seem to learn and get less excited, every time it's the same 1 minute high, every time the same long lasting lo
