Hi Stacy, I'm so sorry that you have had such a negative experience with your friends, and you are right, those are not *real* friends. For me, comfort lies now in speaking with other disabled people who share the same problems, like the people here at this list, and some of the disabled that I have met in my apartment complex. It's as if I am understood, and here in my complex, my disabled friends do not expect me to indulge in activities that are too physical for me. They understand if I am too tired to visit, or too tired to sit outside for very long periods of time, and never take offense---nor do I. Sometimes I sorely miss doing the things that I used to do, but know that I have to adjust to the way that things are now. It's a work in progress.
Grace > > >
