4:26pm March 17, 2012

➸ sengis: The Beauty of Death, The Ugliness of Murder

Thinking about all this stuff about parents who want the right to kill us. (And yes, for anyone whose communication can go away fast in a medical crisis, its us.) And people think our objections are about fearing death.

And like… I’m actually pretty acquainted with death. I…

Yes. Yesyesyes. The parts about being able to depend on each other especially. After last night it’s so obvious that if I’m going to do these fights (which can be, even just physically, dangerous), there’s got to be some community I can come back to. And I’m sure that’s true with a lot of us.

As for different disabilities, we may or may not. Some sort of hypermobility/connective tissue stuff runs in my family, and we aren’t sure which. I don’t talk about it a lot because of everything else pushing to the forefront but that’s the official reason I’ve been given as to why my joints are in awful pain without arthritis existing yet, and for a lot of other stuff that keeps happening. But you’re definitely right – even if we had the same medical diagnosis, which I’m far from sure of, no two people are alike. (And I have to say the combinations get interesting. Pairing a condition that makes my muscles go limp with a condition that makes my joints loose is just asking for trouble.)

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