Category: Relationships
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A Few Words on Caregiving and Relationships
One of the major stressors on disabled people’s relationships is negative (or even incorrect) attitudes and beliefs about disability from outsiders. Yup, it’s the people who have no business commenting on the relationship, or who have no clue about disability, that get most in the way of disabled folks’ intimate lives and partnerships. Sometimes it’s…
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Film Friday: IN The Eye Of The Beholder (The Diane De Vries Story)
diane De Vries was born without arms and legs. This fast-paced, hard-hitting and beautifully honest documentary takes us through Diane’s life, through the ways the fear of her devoutly religious grandmother and the physical neglect of her mother shaped her childhood, through the ways being physically different impacts her interactions with others as an adult…
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Film Friday: One Step Out Of Loneliness
Then my behaviour therapist called, I asked him how to get a girl friend, he said he’d draw up a plan with a step by step process. … Did you know that there are 176 steps that you need to climb in order to get out of loneliness. That’s a lot. Loneliness can feel like…
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Love doesn’t always win for people with disabilities.
June 26 was a history-changing day. Marriage laws in the U.S. finally caught up with reality – many people’s reality, anyway. This ruling opens up a whole new world of fredoms. It solves some of the problems that transgender people wishing to marry have faced up until now and gives same-gender couples the option to…