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Andrea Dworkin - The Power Of Positivity!
As avid readers will be well aware, for the past month we have been looking into
the lives of people with server illnesses and the ways in which they cope with
their disabilities
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After several years of suffering, receiving medication given to her by her doctors
(that did not seem to have the desired effect) the extremely strong pain killers on
which she became dependent appeared to be the only thing that could make her
life bearable
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When asked why it was at this stage in her life that she chose to complete the
piece, Andrea responded “ I have been through so much that I was told was
impossible to survive, I seem to be living in borrowed time” to this she added “It
was my way of staying happy, remembering what I could of my more positive
past”
For this we believe she is truly remarkable, throughout all of her hardships,
Dworkin has not lost her positive attitude, her self-respect and her natural
determinism
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Alas this was not to be
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The leg brace makes everything in her life difficult, walking to
the shop becomes an almost impossible task, small changes to the surface of the
pavement or the gradient of a slope can cause her to lose balance, as can the
people and traffic in which she has to navigate
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“People treat me like a small child!” exclaims Dworkin, “I have the same rights
as anyone, I don’t appreciate being patronised”
Andrea tells of a party that was held in her honour by some friends, she was
unable to attend as it was held in an apartment that was three storeys high
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“I feel alone in a crowded room, not even John [her

husband] is able to understand what it is like for me to be this way
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It is common sense, is it not, that equality is the only way for
everyone to feel accepted? Andrea has formally stated that too many disabled
people are made to feel excluded from society simply because they are unable to
do everything that a healthy individual can do
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Dworkin talks of her struggles in order to prove that although life is hard and it
can test each and every one of us, things can and do get better
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“It keeps me calm and eases my pain in the
night; it helps to think that with the amount of bad luck I’ve experienced in life, I
must be due some good luck, right?”



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