You have to Laugh
Disability Humour Whilst no one wants to be disabled or, ‘otherwise abled’, the reality is, some of us are and we’ve choices. We either feel sorry for ourselves and decide that our life is over, it’ll never be good again and put one foot firmly into the grave or, we take a different approach. Look, let’s get real, we can to an extent reduce pain, we can take away some of the other symptoms and yes, control some of the many side effects we are going to get from the things we take to get rid of the things we already had! Yes, we can do that but, whatever we can do, to whatever extent it helps, we do have to accept something. THE LIFE WE HAD IS NO LONGER PART OF OUR FUTURE. That’s not a negative viewpoint, it’s the start of acceptance and the realisation of one very important thing. WE ARE NOW IN A NEW AND DIFFERENT PHASE OF OUR LIFE. This is not a worse phase, it’s just ‘different’. Think of it as more akin to a gender identity...