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So, I don't really have anywhere else to talk about this that understands it from a Buddhist point of view. In fact, only 2 other people know about it so far, one being my boyfriend, and the other being one of our best friends, who happens to be the person he talks to about stuff from his Religious perspective too (they're Pagan). This will probably be pretty long, and some may see it as pretty contraversial, but I post in the knowledge that controversy and talking about these kind of things, and actually discussing them rather than hushing them up and keeping things quiet is something that this place is for. And I really do need some kind of talking about it with people who will understand my Religious views.
I posted last week about killing a tiger (metaphorically, from the Jakarta tale where Siddharta in a previous life comes across a starving tiger, and feeds himself to her). Talking in metaphor will only confuse people further if I try to continue from that point, so I will explain the situation. It's a very difficult, and very complicated situation and one that is often a massive taboo subject in many places, and in many Religions.
So. I am a severely disabled person. I have many severe physical disabilities, and I have bipolar disorder as well. Of the physical disabilities, one is an autosomnal dominant recessive gene in the clasical type of the syndrome, but in the type I have, it has been labelled Hereditary Familial, and it's pretty much 100% chance of being passed on. My type isn't really fatal fortunately, but other types of the syndrome are, and I have odd symptoms from other types of it, and to be honest, it's called a Syndrome rather than a Disease because people with a certain type can have traits of other types. I seem to have a lot of weird traits that could classify me under a couple of the different types, one of which is fatal, but I only have minor traits of that. |