RE: Boundaries (or 'My Latest Exercise in Anger Management')
August 6, 2016 at 8:08 pm
(This post was last modified: August 6, 2016 at 8:09 pm by c172.)
I have spina bifida, as I have said several times on here before. I have crutches and leg braces. It is something I am born with. I do not know the other side of the fence. But for one, I get more than the normal shares of "God Bless You" and such. I also have complete strangers begging me to let them give me a ride somewhere. Plus, I got my groceries comped once last year by a pastor (I should have just left them as go-backs).
A few weeks ago, I had come off a bus and was going to a social. A young man I thought I recognized apprroached me, so I said "Hey, how's it going?". He introduced himself as an art student, and said that he wanted to invent some sort of brace add-on so that I wouldn't wear out my shoe so much.
An art student?! Really? It may be different if my orthotics team discussed this. But in that case, they'd do all the measurements, etc. And only if it seemed a good idea to...well...me. The guy with the actual disability. Who has had one for 40 years.
I don't get very jealous of others' mobility. But social situations get weird for me. I'd be OK if that ended.
A few weeks ago, I had come off a bus and was going to a social. A young man I thought I recognized apprroached me, so I said "Hey, how's it going?". He introduced himself as an art student, and said that he wanted to invent some sort of brace add-on so that I wouldn't wear out my shoe so much.
An art student?! Really? It may be different if my orthotics team discussed this. But in that case, they'd do all the measurements, etc. And only if it seemed a good idea to...well...me. The guy with the actual disability. Who has had one for 40 years.
I don't get very jealous of others' mobility. But social situations get weird for me. I'd be OK if that ended.
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
