Reply #37: Woohooo! yes, i'm here, and posting with my new star!

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thank you to a very kind person who gets it about disability and enabled me to join!
i'm bowled over by that kindness!

i am disabled with an invisible disability, like so many here, from what i read. i have debilitating brain damage (violent assault, but thirty years rehabilitated as much as possible); i already had chronic 'recurrent mononucleosis' - epstein-barr virus - when that happened to me.

thirty years' (marginally) surviving these challenges has left me with debilitating ptsd. i am 99% housebound - that is, rare outings with assistance.

i have long been, as GeorgeBushytail put it, a keyboard activist.

as you all must know, there are forums for the disabled out there, but they usually are not politically progressive. DU has been my main community for years now, but i have been an outsider here too.

now, you have let me feel included.

also like GeorgeBushytail described, this place really moves too fast for me. that is wonderful in an activist forum, but does always leave me behind. i do a lot of thread kicking, some "yeah"s n "thanks," and some grousing now and then, but posting a thread of my own can take me an entire day - including quelling the shaking - and becomes full-time work to maintain.
(one reason - some will have seen - i almost always post in pre-dawn hours.)

i know many of you can relate. well, please know that as i read i could relate to all of you too.

THANK YOU for including us!!
and THANK YOU kind one, for my star!!


peace!