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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Grainne who wrote (25428)	10/11/1998 6:54:00 PM
From: Impristine	Respond to of 108807

Hi Christine, thank you for your kind words. Do not feel sorry for my disfigurement. I am one of happiest, most joyful, most passionate, most active people I know…. except for a few people who are more disfigured than myself…..LOL. There is incredible strength in disfigurement after 30 years of normalcy. I know that wherever I go, and whatever I do, people will always gawk at me. I made a conscious decision to do and say what needs to be said. People will always look at me with a sense of horror and fear, anyway. People will not look me in the eye, at times, and this speaks volumes. Disfigurement allows me to see straight through someone. It allows me to see someone as if a light was turned on. I can see how someone else feels about themselves in their projections towards me. It is quite powerful and I am amazed by the insights. It is funny, because I was a Physical Therapist for 8 years prior to being horrifically disfigured, And I am treating and relating with patients on an entirely different level than I did Before my 'disability.' It is quite powerful to look someone in the eye, who is facing their own mortality, who is looking over the edge of death, who is afraid, deciding they want to live, and seeing someone more messed up than themselves, who is there to help. In one quick glance, they know, i have walked the road. There is incredible power in a way I cannot fully express.