I try very hard to continually tell stories of Don’s life, and how my life is affected by his disability. I’ve had a lot of people who read me for various reasons have those lightbulb moments when I’ve talked about how difficult it was to find a flat, how my workplace doesn’t have an evac plan for people with disabilities, how just trying to afford his meds some month is out of our reach. They’ve started looking around and wondering if their homes are accessible (usually not), if their workplaces have evac plans (some do).

Don also talks about having found the Disability Blogosphere and suddenly it’s okay for him to be “sick” – he can talk about his pain without feeling like he’s a burden, he cal talk about good days and bad days and is willing to call me on my ablist priviledge when I’m being thoughtless. It’s such a difference, for both of us.

Some days I just want to scream. But I can take a break. I can go to work today and not have to deal with his pain. He can’t.

I think blogging has been very good for both of us. Neither of us feels alone anymore.

I used to be a daily reader of this blog during the school year. But as summer came around I wasn’t around computers as much and lost the habit of reading blogs daily. So i’m a bit out of touch of what comments were made by your readers and what your disability may be.

anyway this was just an inspiring blog that made it clear to me why the world of blogging is so powerful. I just discovered this world this past year, and a friend and I decided to start our own (http://robotdoves.blogspot.com– but we have no readers haha) and I quickly became addicted to blogs, not sure why I was so engaged to this world of online journals. Than I realized how how I was going through many of my internal struggles, (healing from child sexual abuse) I struggled to find a safe space in my own environment (on my college campus) where I felt there were others that matched my struggle or outlook on life, and that it is comforting to know that when I think I’m the only one that has uncontrollable anger everytime I hear a song being mainstreamed on the radio, or see a disgusting music video, it’s not because I’m overly sensitive and crazy, (I know my reactions aren’t constructive) but it’s just comforting to know that there are others out there who feel the same, and blogging has brought that to me! anyway this is an extremely long comment. sorry about that! but I just wanted to say that when you know something brings something positive to your life, but you don’t know why, it’s not as good as knowing why. and after reading this, now i know why!=)

best of luck!,

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