Friday 10 May 2013

Memory and progressive physical disability

There is an important consequence that arises as my movement becomes more challenging: the feeling of my body not working properly becomes set against the memories of what free movement feels like. Therefore, it is not necessarily the impaired movement that causes the emotional damage but the relative gap between expectations based on memories and current levels of movement. Such a gap between feelings makes my current movement appear much worse.

This is the challenge of coming to terms with a progressive disability.


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