As I became handicapped 36 years ago I saw myself as natural part of the environment, where I with my disability should fit into. It didn’t even occur to me that maybe the environment was ‘disabled’ so that it prevents me from acting in the best way possible. Over the …
As I became physically disabled over 30 years ago I was very aware of my reduced mobility, but mentally I was the same person as I was before. I saw my illness as most people do: negative. But I didn’t feel that I would be imperfect or IN-valid somehow. For …
Just before the fatal New Years Eve I had finished the curriculum of my school. I had only the final exam before me that was needed to seal the school education. I had accomplished the first tests as I was in rehabilitation centre. In spring 1980 I completed the second …
After nine months hospital and rehabilitation treatment in 1979 I returned home and all the memories about previous months faded away. I felt that I was totally alone with my handicap. Medicine had done what it could to help me onto my feet. Thereafter I myself had to find a …
As I got my handicap I had from the very beginning the feeling that it was not so important to have many different kind of experiences. More important was that I learned to see my experiences from as many points of view as possible. To my mind the real exploration …
In my text Foretaste of Forthcoming I write that I found a sustainable ground for my life over 30 years ago in the lyrics of an ancient oriental hymn. I am glad that I can stand tall now and say: this is how it happened. But as everything was happening …
On July 3rd, 1979, exactly 33 years ago my life was at a turning point like today, on July 3rd, 2012, when I open this blog. 33 years ago in the New Year’s Eve I had a stroke in brain and after a week in coma I found myself …