For 30 years, I tried to ‘fight’ it. In the end, I found relief in embracing my identity as a person with a disability, says sociologist Keith Kahn-Harris
For 30 years, I tried to ‘fight’ it. In the end, I found relief in embracing my identity as a person with a disability
At first, my optimism seemed warranted. It was the Easter holidays and my parents took good care of me. The fever only lasted a few days and I was out of bed within a week or two. I made it back to university for the summer term; the only difference was that my parents carried my belongings from the car to my room.It is now 2022. I am 50 years old. And I still haven’t fully recovered.
It kind of worked. I was more stable, more in control. But while I had fewer troughs, I also had fewer peaks. My life lacked joy and I became resentful of the vices that my twentysomething peers could indulge in. The hope of a recovery in the future condemned me to an austere existence in the present; pleasure endlessly deferred.
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