[HDM] wheelchairs are like daemons.
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kaberettThey are independent, but they are part of you. If you're lucky or dedicated, they're a fantastic - and developing - expression of your personality. Strangers touching your chair is hideously invasive and violating; whereas a partner (with prior negotiated consent) touching your chair casually and carefully - even if it's on the other side of the room from you - can be gloriously intimate and comforting.
It's not all a good mapping, of course - because yes, it can hurt like fuck if you get significantly separated from your chair (esp. forcible separation), but you don't tend to emerge from that particular trial by fire suddenly ~free and independent~. (How much I hate the phrase "independently mobile" used to mean "not employing mobility aids" is a conversation for another day, I think.)
Nonetheless. Something that struck me earlier.
It's not all a good mapping, of course - because yes, it can hurt like fuck if you get significantly separated from your chair (esp. forcible separation), but you don't tend to emerge from that particular trial by fire suddenly ~free and independent~. (How much I hate the phrase "independently mobile" used to mean "not employing mobility aids" is a conversation for another day, I think.)
Nonetheless. Something that struck me earlier.
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Date: 2014-02-09 11:21 pm (UTC)Which bit of HDM are you referencing, here? All I recall on daemon-separation is the little boy clutching the dead fish, clearly never going to be quite fully functional again... (shuddering just to remember this, it really pings my Stuff About Memory Loss)
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Date: 2014-02-10 03:31 pm (UTC)(I thought "independently mobile" meant not needing another person to assist you in mobilizing, rather than not needing mobility aids? There are still issues with "independent", even in that context, but I am sure I have heard of people who self-propel in wheelchairs being described as independently mobile, people who use a lift to get into the bath being independent in bathing, etc.)
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Date: 2014-02-10 05:47 pm (UTC)Thanks for article link - I am going to read it Shortly, or possibly Less Shortly when more awake ;)