Differently Abled (fly your freak flag high)

[SuperFemme]

Originally Posted by Andrew, Jr.

Adele,

Yes, I do remember! I close my eyes and I see you. I remember our hug. It was fabulous. Like Indiana Jones and his woman friend (I can't think of her name).

As for Dino, yes. After my seizures, he is on my head, and starring at me. Eye to eye. I can't get over it. He is just my everything.

I am always laughing at myself. You have no idea. It is like an adventure with me every day. Nothing is normal in my life. But what I mean is like the everyday sort of thing with other people. They just have no idea. None. I just had someone call me a retard in the grocery store because I asked him 3 times for the aisle no. for oranges. There is none. Who knew? You would have thought I was shopping for milk, eggs, and tp, and God knows what else there was. We were having a snow storm.

Right? I LOSE it in the grocery store. Somebody finally clued me into the fact that you can get a map of the grocery store from customer service. Then again, that would require me remembering to make my list in accordance with the map. Which I never do. Which means I criss-cross the store about twenty times.

God forbid I have to do something OUT of my routine. ACK! Then there are the things that are simple for most. Cooking for example. I tend to start fires. Remembering to rinse the conditioner out of my hair BEFORE I get out of the shower. Not using Benadryl cream for toothpaste. Taking the plastic cover OFF my razor before shaving.

I'm a laugh a minute. BUT I've learned to tell the guy I'm asking for the aisle oranges are on that I am disabled the first time around. Then we can laugh at me together the fifth time I ask.

Ha!

[Andrew, Jr.]

Adele,

You know what, I used Rosie's hairspray for deod. today. My underarm hairs had no idea of what was going on. And brushing my teeth with Benedryl is typical in my house. We just go with the flow here.

As for my routines, I have to stay with them. If I go off my routines, I have more anxiety than Mt. Everest.

Oh, yeah, I just go with the flow. I just wish society was more compassionate towards folks like us here in this thread. It seems that society is going backyards instead of forewards. And the lack of compassion is growing each day. Look at handicapped parking spots. That is just a nightmare. So many are willing to start a fight over parking spots. How much more petty can we get than that?

[Rockinonahigh]

I laugh at myself a lot for the same reason Mr.Day dose,cause if I dont they will, being profoundly deff on one hand is a blessing and on the other a royal pain in the ass.I have learned to deal with the hearing world far better than it has with me.Acctually not hearing other peoples bs is a good thing,with my aids on its way to much to process so lots of times I dont have them on.G-d help me when the vertago hits and im like a saterday night drunk.Since I quit rideing my balance is worse at times....then there is the stuttering that with as much therapy I have had over the years pops up now and then.All in all I just keep going on cause its the way my world is,the peeps that count are ok with it,the ones who arent..well its there prob not mine.
Rock