tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3294909900531294769.post2739480287392402816..comments2023-05-02T05:52:18.751-08:00Comments on Stop and Smell the Lichen: Nuna Inuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04223337844864431367noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3294909900531294769.post-40206018911343971042010-02-17T13:38:54.720-09:002010-02-17T13:38:54.720-09:00Hita Herman!
Thanks for enjoying my blog :) somet...Hita Herman!<br /><br />Thanks for enjoying my blog :) sometimes I feel like I babbling so it's nice to hear feedback! <br /><br />As for influences. I am very random. My ultimate favorite writers are sci-fi and fantasy writers. I am always of the opinion that it is harder to convince me to love something that does not exist, than it is to convince me of something that does. I adore Orson Scott Card, Neil Gaiman (specifically American Gods), Anne McCaffrey, Tad Williams, and others. I am also known to frequent random sections and pick a book that I would never normally read...Nuna Inuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04223337844864431367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3294909900531294769.post-39338777488797680602010-02-16T18:36:35.464-09:002010-02-16T18:36:35.464-09:00Mary turned me onto your blog....Im a writer in NY...Mary turned me onto your blog....Im a writer in NYC, I can't stop....I wanna know what yer influences are, as in writers....also, I can , sorta, relate, Im "bipolar" and also mixed, my family is half native, half irish, always we never knew where we belonged, truth be told I never felt comfy anywhere but alone....reading, or in nature...anyway, very good writing, love it.....Hermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09425715376136744272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3294909900531294769.post-66190053233255867622010-01-31T19:07:25.447-09:002010-01-31T19:07:25.447-09:00I guess I have different view of things as an indi...I guess I have different view of things as an individual with developmental disability and mental illness I see many different perspectives.<br /><br />First off. I don't think I am eaten by a polar bear. I am the polar bear. I am the polar bear with pink fur born into a village of white furred bears. They gawk at us, ask questions or ignore us. We are looked upon as a freak, born with defect that cannot be cured and something to be abhorred. <br /><br />I was born with bi-polar and high functioning autism. I wasn't eaten by a big monster, this is something that is just part of me. Like my hair, white skin, sex and eye color. People have no idea how to approach us, they either make us feel guilty and shameful for who I am, try to fix me when I didn't ask for it when I do ask for help ignore my condition completely. <br />"You can talk and hold a job surely your are not autistic."<br />"You have good grip with reality surely you are not manic." <br /><br />I can't win with people, I don't want to be saved or have the Christan god save my soul. If I want healing let me find my own path. If I ask for help. Help me, don't come to me with false fearful pity. My father is an alcoholic and one with bi-polar. I don't pity my father or wonder why their aren't services in place. Many of the problems he faces are the ones he created through his own choices. <br /><br />As someone that is fighting for rights for people with developmental disabilities and is eager for people to take seriously and do not turn their heads away when we pink furred bears ask for someone to help us when we need housing, transportation and medicine. <br /><br />I guess a better analogy Nuna is not that mental illness is the pink furred bear in the tent but it's the stigma of being mentally disabled.<br /><br />I want people to take me seriously not run away in fear. I swear. I am not a monster. <br /><br />I am sorry I don't make any sense at all this is just a very powerful topic for me.Bardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11695482696257595077noreply@blogger.com