Do what you do
Oct. 24th, 2012 09:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brightrosefox*deep breath, sigh*
Okay. Okay, yoga fanatic friends. I need you to do something for me.
I need you to STOP telling me how [insert yoga form] will change my life or heal my pain or [insert miraculous treatment of symptons]. STOP. PLEASE. I don't wanna. I don't care. I am doing a special form of physical therapy. And then maybe, much much later, maybe, maybe, I will take some sort of yoga for disabled people class. Or tai chi. Or something. (But never Bikram, because what hello you want me to do what in how much heat?) But I really don't need or want anyone bouncing in my face with "Oh, wow Jo, you really need to try this yoga form! It is so lifechanging! It will heal you in so many ways! I have connections! We will have so much fun!"
*deep breath, sigh*
Yeah. I love you, but no. Not now. So do shut up.
Also, I have been seeing so much of that specific enthusiasm on some of my fellow cripples' FB walls and blog comments, and I have kept my mouth shut because it is not my business. But, guys, really, stop trying to fix the world just because you discovered something that people have been doing for thousands of years. I quit doing that after I realized how fucking annoying it was. Because it truly is fucking annoying. Unless I ask, do not offer. Just talk about how it has "changed" your own life. If people are intrigued, they will ask. I promise.
Okay. Okay, yoga fanatic friends. I need you to do something for me.
I need you to STOP telling me how [insert yoga form] will change my life or heal my pain or [insert miraculous treatment of symptons]. STOP. PLEASE. I don't wanna. I don't care. I am doing a special form of physical therapy. And then maybe, much much later, maybe, maybe, I will take some sort of yoga for disabled people class. Or tai chi. Or something. (But never Bikram, because what hello you want me to do what in how much heat?) But I really don't need or want anyone bouncing in my face with "Oh, wow Jo, you really need to try this yoga form! It is so lifechanging! It will heal you in so many ways! I have connections! We will have so much fun!"
*deep breath, sigh*
Yeah. I love you, but no. Not now. So do shut up.
Also, I have been seeing so much of that specific enthusiasm on some of my fellow cripples' FB walls and blog comments, and I have kept my mouth shut because it is not my business. But, guys, really, stop trying to fix the world just because you discovered something that people have been doing for thousands of years. I quit doing that after I realized how fucking annoying it was. Because it truly is fucking annoying. Unless I ask, do not offer. Just talk about how it has "changed" your own life. If people are intrigued, they will ask. I promise.
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Date: 2012-10-25 07:24 pm (UTC)Meanwhile, since I have you here, have I got a lifechanging perfect healing solution for you! All you need is a transfusion of Honey Badger DNA and you will become a TOTAL BADASS.
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Date: 2012-10-25 08:04 pm (UTC)