„When people\u00a0 think of me as resilient in the face of adversity, what they are really seeing is that I\u2019ve learned to surrender to a deeper strength and protection than my own. That I have learned to simultaneously try my best to survive, but not be afraid of either life or death.<\/p>\n
Which means I am doing something quite different from the „trusting that things will work out“ […] that a lot of highly privileged people do. Their privilege lets them sail through adversity that could kill someone like me, and then claim that this is because the universe likes them a lot. Just, no. That\u2019s an insult to everyone who doesn\u2019t survive.\u00a0 This is nothing like that. Danger for me is danger:\u00a0 I could live or die, come out unscathed or heavily damaged, anything in between. What I trust is not that I will come out of everything squeaky clean, alive, and happy.\u00a0 It\u2019s rather that there\u2019s a deep level of reality where even if I end up dead or damaged, my existence is connected to everything else and will always have happened.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard (impossible) to explain in words, but it comes down to a connection to a kind of goodness that is lending its strength to you even if the worst happens.<\/p>\n
This kind of submission can sound passive, but it\u2019s an active process. And it can change how you relate to the world and to people in it.“<\/p>\n
(Aus Amanda Baggs‘ Beitrag<\/a> zum Disability Blog Carnival<\/a>, Thema dieses Jahr: „Long nights and what we need to get through them.“)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" „When people\u00a0 think of me as resilient in the face of adversity, what they are really seeing is that I\u2019ve learned to surrender to a deeper strength and protection than my own. That I have learned to simultaneously try my best to survive, but not be afraid of either life or death. Which means I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autismus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gedankentraeger.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gedankentraeger.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gedankentraeger.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gedankentraeger.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gedankentraeger.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gedankentraeger.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gedankentraeger.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gedankentraeger.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gedankentraeger.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}