[Synapse elist] Fwd: (no subject)

[ju90]

Yup, this went missing too - for some reason the elist isn't  
operating like my other groups, so hitting 'reply' means it's going  
direct to the poster.

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> From: ju90 <mail at ju90.co.uk>
> Date: 9 May 2008 15:39:05 BDT
> To: Brad Nunn <bradnunn at bigpond.net.au>
> Subject: Re: [Synapse elist] (no subject)
>
>> . I’m have ‘pride’ of being other, of who I am and am very
>> happy with my life, but yet I still am aware that my body has  
>> deviated
>> from it’s previous pathway.
>
> I think one of the hardest things for us to accept as humans is  
> that we are constantly changing, and that this condition involves  
> losses as well as gains. I was seriously ill in 2000, possibly as a  
> result of assault but certainly as the result of illegal  
> discrimination - which was later proven in court. The changes that  
> this wrought in me have been far more difficult to accept than the  
> impairments that I had always lived with, even those that had  
> become substantially more significant in my mid-20s. What I am  
> still trying to accept is that my body - and mind - would have  
> changed anyway with ageing, and that there is no set 'pathway' for  
> any of us; it is just as possible that I could be more impaired -  
> more different than I was in the 1990s - than I am today rather  
> than less if this incident had not occurred. The reason this is  
> hard for me to accept is that our society denies this reality, so  
> it is not reflected in our culture.
>
> Good to talk to you Brad.
>
> Ju

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