http://www.demyelinate.org the journal of a twentysomething transabled MS-wannabe grrl Mon, 11 Jun 2007 04:24:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In talking with other members of the transabled community over the past 9 months or so, I've noticed something. To borrow the transgendered community's language to use for transabled issues as Sean does, a lot of us seem to 'crossable'. By that, I mean people that are transabled, ... http://www.demyelinate.org/2007/06/10/on-crossabling/ No posts for a month! People keep asking me when I'm going to post again, and now seems like a good time. Just over one month ago, I went out on my second trip on wheels. Since then, I've spent every weekend on wheels, and today for the first ... http://www.demyelinate.org/2007/05/09/one-month-later/ I headed out for my second wheeling trip today. The long delay between my first and second is due to the fact that I live in an area that has snow all winter, and I figured wheeling while there was tons of snow around was likely not a good ... http://www.demyelinate.org/2007/03/31/second-wheeling-trip/ It's been awhile since I posted part 1 of my first weekend out, but due to busyness in my life and depression issues, I hadn't been in a place and mental state to write. Here's the next installment in my weekend! --- I wheeled into the upper level of the subway ... http://www.demyelinate.org/2007/03/25/my-first-wheeling-weekend-pt2-robin-goes-downtown/ To anyone curious, I do still fully plan on keeping this site up and having new content. I've been struggling with depression around being transabled (and just general random depression) for awhile now, and it's become much worse over the past month or so. I don't tend to ... http://www.demyelinate.org/2007/03/23/depression-and-lack-of-writing/ Being transabled is really, really awful some days. Other days, it's only mildly awful. Today is not one of those mild days. Today is one of those days where I cry myself to sleep, and wonder how I'm going to live with this for the rest of my life. ... http://www.demyelinate.org/2007/02/15/one-of-those-days/ Last weekend, I went out wheeling in public for the first time. I posted my quick notes when I got home, but I wanted to put together a full summary of my trip now. Friday night, I was having a really rough time transabled-wise, and started planning a ... http://www.demyelinate.org/2007/02/11/my-first-wheeling-weekend-pt1-robin-leaves-home/ I just came back from spending my first weekend wheeling out in public. I wanted to jot down some quick points, before I put together a full report of my trip and post it in a day or three. Wheeling really does make you invisible to most of society. ... http://www.demyelinate.org/2007/02/04/quick-wheeling-notes/ I'm back. Have been for awhile, but hadn't felt much like writing until tonight. Someone brought up something about leading a double-life in a comment to a previous entry, and I figured I'd write a full entry on it. I live a double-life. Most transabled people probably do, in one ... http://www.demyelinate.org/2007/01/31/double-lives/ It's going to be significantly harder than I'd initially anticipated to be without my chair for a week. I'm heading out of town for a week starting tomorrow, and as I'm very new to wheeling, it's staying at home while I head out (it'll be quite awhile before I'm ... http://www.demyelinate.org/2007/01/17/a-week-away/