Guardian irony overload: I learned to love my disabled body

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Very interesting article today called "I learned to love my disabled body – why can’t my non-disabled friends love theirs?"

I wonder if the slowcoaches at the Guardian will ever join the dots?

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/sep/09/i-learned-to-love-my-disabled-body-why-cant-my-non-disabled-friends-love-theirs

Managing cognitive dissonance is an important skill in the Brave New World.

Actually brave woman, with nothing about being born in the wrong body.

bodies are worthy of kindness and care because we all spend our whole lives in one and because they make those lives possible. They give us the gift of existing, and the least we can do in return is refuse to be made to hate them. In other words, all bodies are good bodies. No ifs. No buts. Just acceptance.
Absolutely. Perfectly expressed.

I'd say I'm about 85% of the way there, myself.

Agree. Must be very headache inducing, though. How do they remember what stance they took on which issue, and when?

Thanks OP that is an interesting article and especially useful for me to read as I am having issues with my body right now, both how it looks and what it does.

But it may not provoke as much cognitive dissonance as you'd imagine. Bear with me, I'm still working through my thoughts...

If the concept of "transness" is seen along the same lines as the concept of "disability" then you could say that problems only occur when society does not make adaptations (following the social model of disability.)

And also, letting go of shame for "disabled" appearance or behaviour could be equated to letting go of shame for "trans" appearance or behaviour, that behaviour including body modification.

It might seem a stretch but these hoops are probably easier to jump through when your mind is already fundamentally fixed a certain way.

I teach at a school with a unit for children with physical disabilities. When children talk about being born in the wrong body (in a ‘trans’ sense) I remind them that it’s important to accept the body we have, and that some of our classmates might be upset by the term ‘born in the wrong body’.