Hello!
I
know, it’s been a while, but life gets busy sometimes. I have started another blog (which does not
mean however that I am stopping this one!) which might be of interest to some
of you who are reading this one. This
new blog is about the experience of living outside of the normative, of trying
to survive, and take part in, a society when you aren’t representative of the
typical. Specifically it’s about the
experiences of living in Western Canadian society when one has what is termed a
developmental disability, although I hate that term and I will not use it again.
This
place, of being outside of the normative, whether it is as a result of a
developmental disability (oh look, I lied, I used that awful term again) or
some other form of difference, is a difficult place to be. I do not think the bulk of people who do not
live in such a place, or who are not close to somebody who is in such a place,
understand, or realize, the difficulties this can present, and how much the
environment our society has created works against those who are outside of its
box. And yet there is so much that
people outside of that box have to offer to those located within. My son has grown up in this place, of being
different. He is now 18 and I, and he,
are ready to share some of our experiences.
His is only one voice, as is mine, and ours are only our experiences, but
they are voices, and they are experiences, and as such can perhaps
shed some light on some of the possibilities of both ours’ and others’ experiences. So I have created this other blog, to share
in some of those experiences, to bring awareness, and to also share some of the
joys, because there are joys, ones that you could never imagine. We need to make this world a more accepting,
no, celebratory, place, there is so much we could gain. So check out "Living Outside the Normative", and stay tuned.
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