Introduction
My life was not meant to be like
this, to turn out this way; perhaps that is the case for everyone but I went from being a fit and healthy twenty-eight
year old law graduate working for a governmental agency to a thirty-five year
old unemployed nobody with a disability.
The Revolution of a Life
If you cannot tell from my words
above, having a disability hurts me mentally as well as physically: so not only
have I had to come to terms with living with a disability but I have had to
come to terms with having the ‘disability’ label too. But, perhaps, now or from now on,
everything will change: this blog will be a revolution of my thoughts, from
denial to acceptance and beyond, that I can and I will realise my potential
because of my disability rather than despite it.
The Revolution of Pain Management
My disability is chronic pain;
silently hidden but constantly violent, like a rabid rodent crawling through my
insides, aggravatingly gnawing at me, making me reliant on medication and
ripping out hope of freedom, happiness, a life; or so I thought. For Disability Revolution will
also be a diary of my attempt to overcome the pain, or at least tame it: taking
on and living to a new program, one of absolute pacing, rest (but not too
much), exercise and using distraction and relaxation techniques.
As I have battled myself to
accept my fate (as only you can do, for that is what fate is), so too have I
had to fight to overcome the barriers, challenges and stigma of the disability
‘label’, even with what I felt was having a favourable background. So Disability Revolution will be
the voice of anyone with a disability, to revolutionise the widely held views,
or what some might say prejudices, on disability: to prove that disability is
nothing but a mere weakness, difference, a foible of humanity.
The Revolution of Politics
If my disability has taught me
anything, it is that it could strike anyone at any moment; I know because it
happened to me, though you would not think so from the shameful rhetoric of
this coalition government and its right-wing media accomplices. So Disability Revolution will
campaign against the tyranny raging against those with disability, who label
everyone with a disability and claiming benefits as a malingerer, using rare
examples of abuse of the system as the norm rather than the rarity they are.
So… ‘I’m gonna start a revolution
from my bed…’
No comments:
Post a Comment