Finding Normal

Though They Say I'm Not

(March 2024)

Merging Disability, COVID & GBA+ with "Forced Normalization"

Here's the deal folks:

The pandemic changed our lives, right?

Everyone on early this struggling to understand the changes from "pre" to "post" pandemic, right?

I, too, am a product of these things today.

I also watched Barbie take the world by storm and lose to Oppenheimer - bombs lose to a beautiful visual poem that inspired women of all types.

We are simple, simple creatures. All a living being truly needs is: 1. Food; 2. Shelter; 3. Water and that being will survive until the following dawn. How do I know? I’ve done it. For the entire pandemic. I watched my footsteps very carefully since I didn’t really know how to walk in the “urban jungle” that we call 2024. Our limbic systems are not ready for the complexities of this Digital Revolution and all it entails.

So, what happens when your life is up-ended by not only 1 virus causing epilepsy, a pandemic initiated by a different yet still a "v-i-r-u-s", the death of your guide dog, a brain surgery that sure wasn't perfect nor smooth, but saved your life...

Would you live to tell the tale?

I did.

Would you like to know more?

Me too.

Welcome to my journey.

How would you approach this world?

With fear?

Yes.

Twice bitten twice shy, right?

How much faith would you have after being told, point blank, you are clearly not "normal"?

I'm trying to find out.

This newsletter is a stand against the isolation I have been ushered into as a "W.E.I.R.D." patient and an opportunity to share my alternative view of this world. Sometimes the patient has an opinion too - let's not forget those voices.