Although it might seem like we have lived with superheroes for a rather long time I can remember when they were rather new to Britain. It was back in the late 1960’s that I first discovered this American genre of the costumed hero. I can remember a garishly coloured comic book titled ‘Fantastic’, which reprinted … Continue reading The X-Men, Me, and Growing Up Disabled
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The week just gone can be summed up by one word; pain!
I live with chronic pain. I have done for most of my life, although members of the medical profession have not always acknowledged the fact. According the medical books people who have Myotonia Congenita are not supposed to be in pain, but I did not write those academic tomes and, from what I have seen, … Continue reading The week just gone can be summed up by one word; pain!
Peter C Whitaker 