By Annaham on 16 November, 2010
Peggy Orenstein for the New York Times Magazine: The code-words of breast cancer awareness Fast-forward to today, when, especially during October, everything from toilet paper to buckets of fried chicken to the chin straps of N.F.L. players look as if they have been steeped in Pepto. If the goal was “awareness,” that has surely been [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged age, asexuality, awareness, birth control, breast cancer, cerebral palsy, chronic pain conditions, coming out, fibromyalgia, fraud, homeopathy, medicine, mental illness, normality, post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, queer
By s.e. smith on 7 November, 2010
Content note: This Dear Imprudence discusses the use of hitting to ‘discipline’ children. Dear Prudie’s Monday livechat featured a doozy of a question: Q. Discipline: My wife and I have been married for eight years, and we have three wonderful children, two girls and a boy. While we agree on most everything, the one thing [...]
Posted in Dear Imprudence | Tagged autism, cerebral palsy, children, Dear Prudence, Emily Yoffe, parenting
By Annaham on 21 October, 2010
As I’ve mentioned previously, I have fairly mild cerebral palsy that mostly affects the left side of my body, and my left leg and foot in particular. I’ve had sort of a strange relationship with my left side, and the foot attached. Because my left leg is a few inches shorter than my right one, [...]
Posted in bodies, identity, normality | Tagged cerebral palsy, mental health, movement, normality, personal, personal stories
By Annaham on 7 August, 2010
My beginning is like this: I was born a full three months before my expected arrival. I apparently couldn’t wait the whole nine months to come into the world. This early arrival was rife with complications, however: a brain hemorrhage, one collapsed lung (I still have under-armpit scars from the surgery), and, the kicker — [...]
Posted in blaming, bodies, identity | Tagged cerebral palsy, fibromyalgia, just world theory, personal, personal stories
By Annaham on 24 July, 2010
To begin, rather pithily: I have had very mixed experiences with medical professionals throughout my life. Some have been fantastic. Some have been middle-of-the-road. And, as you might expect to hear from a person with a chronic pain condition, some have been absolutely awful. Recently, I had a fantastic experience in a consultation with the [...]
Posted in happy posts, medical practice, small stories, social attitudes | Tagged cerebral palsy, doctors, fibromyalgia, medical care, medications, pain management, personal stories, surgery
By Annaham on 2 July, 2010
I have dealt with disability, in various capacities, for my entire life — this started when I was born three months prematurely and was affected by cerebral palsy (left hemiplegia, if anyone really wants to know) as a result. I know what you might be thinking: You cannot possibly have CP, Annaham! CP is always [...]
Posted in bodies, i'm right here, identity, normality, othering, small stories | Tagged bodies, cerebral palsy, hemiplegia, movement, pride
By Annaham on 2 April, 2010
[Image description: a woman's hand rests on an inlaid wood cane.] I use a cane! This should not come as a surprise, but often when I am out in public, it does. People seem surprised to see a young person who uses a cane; while I have not gotten people “confronting” me about it directly [...]
Posted in accessibility, autonomy, bodies, happy posts, normality, politics, resistance, Uncategorized | Tagged accessibility, assistive devices, cerebral palsy, chronic pain conditions, disability, fibromyalgia, personal, self-acceptance
By lauredhel on 1 March, 2010
[WARNING for this post: ableism within and without the medical system, pregnancy/baby losses mentioned] Defiant Birth: Women Who Resist Medical Eugenics, by Melinda Tankard Reist, is a book about women. It is a book about families. It is a book about resistance. It is a book about women who refuse to be told what they [...]
Posted in autonomy, bodies, feminism, medical practice, reproductive justice, resistance, social attitudes | Tagged ableism, ablist, abortion, achondroplasia, asthma, birth, cerebral palsy, defiant birth, disability, disability and pregnancy, disabled, down syndrome, down's syndrome, dwarfism, eugenics, genetic counselling, genetic screening, healthcare, lupus, mctd, medicine, melinda tankard reist, obstetrics, phocomelia, pregnancy, prenatal diagnosis, pro-choice, pulmonary hypertension, reist, reproductive justice, scheurmann's disease, termination of pregnancy, thalidomide, trisomy 21, wheelchair
By Annaham on 18 December, 2009
A cautionary tale, of sorts: Back when I was a young, naive college freshman, I decided to attend one of those campus service/organization ‘fests (meant to introduce many other naive young things to the services available to them at university)–mostly because it was right in my dorm’s common room. Oh, and they were going to [...]
Posted in biography, bodies, i'm right here, identity, introspective, normality, social attitudes | Tagged ableism, acceptance, cerebral palsy, CP, problematic attitudes, social inclusion, social treatment
By Anna on 2 December, 2009
Recommended Reading for Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged accessibility, asperger syndrome, autism, cerebral palsy, disability awareness days, humour, media and pop culture, perceptions, social treatment, tourism
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