Category: Situations

  • Take A Walk

    Turns out its much easier to lose the ability to do things than to gain it. So to avoid this kind of loss, Mom and I take a walk.

  • Position

    The longer I stay at my childhood home, the more details pop and need to be taken care of. I realized I needed another grabbing bar outside of my shower. Not that my shower didn’t have any to begin with: it was designed specifically to meet my needs… When I was six years old and…

  • Tension

    Tension has always played a big role in my life. My muscle tension is higher than normal: it’s just part of having Cerebral Palsy. Every physical therapy or Pilates session eventually comes down to this – locating the tension and relaxing it, allowing more movement and freedom to my otherwise stiff right arm and leg.…

  • Represented

    I love TV. It’s a somewhat one-way love: TV doesn’t always love me back, or at least it feels that way. Ever since I started my complicated and unexpected journey in university, finding TV characters with disabilities (then critic and analyze them, and present the result to anyone who’ll listen) became a weird habit of…

  • Putting It Together

    Every new year or new semester, I find myself trying to figure out my life again. How do I put everything together one more time? Do I do anything differently? What did I enjoy more or less, and what should get my attention? What can I leave behind? To be honest, I still don’t know…

  • A Fine Line

    Between this blog, two thesis ideas and actually living my life outside of the internet or university, I’ve been writing and talking a lot about my disability lately. The more I keep on that, the more I feel as if there’s a very fine line between all of it being just enough – and realizing…

  • Taking The Fall

    I fell down recently. I walked around a corner while someone came from the other side. He didn’t see me and we bumped into each other. He immediately helped me up – even though I resisted, yelled and couldn’t figure out whether and how and I got hurt. I was left there, a bit stunned.…

  • Food

    I haven’t posted anything in quite a while. I had a hard time coming up with topics. I was making a sandwich this afternoon when I realized the perfect topic is right in front of me: food. I tend to make a mess when I eat food that doesn’t fit naturally into bites. Also, since…

  • Exercise

    I’ve been excused from gym class in high school. Instead, I had to do an actual gym class – I went to the school gym, walked for 30 minutes on the treadmill and wrote it down in an Excel file. Every semester or so, I had to send the Excel to the teacher. That was…

  • Bars & Chairs

    In light of the new year approaching, here are a few thoughts about what it takes for me to drink. To celebrate my return from Texas, I went out with friends. I love doing that – it’s a good way to catch up and let loose a little. However, as the universe has it, one…