Diabetic Cyborg Life 01/22: Difficulties & Results Part. 1
Often, I wonder if I would be empathic and. kind person without my disabilities and impoverished past. I would love to say yes, I would be that since our mother taught us how to be humble and compassionate. To care about others’ lives and not to try to be the squeaky wheel that needs that attention all the time.
I am listening, reading, to the book Far from the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity. The author, Andrew Solomon, tells of many interviews where people that have disabilities and various hardships in sexuality and gender identity.
Many he writes of say that they would not trade their different lives:” to be “normal” for anything. They see that their lives are better than their difficulties. This might be a survival instinct kicking in, or the fact that all the interviews are anecdotal.
Subjective evidence is always subject to personal biases and to try to appear more than one is at times.
I will honestly say that I would not trade my impoverished childhood for a rich or even middle class one.
