Often the internet is maligned as creating distance between people. I agree. Yet there is an interconnectedness that it brings, as evidenced by this article written by Jamie Rau, a 23 year old in Oaxaca, Mexico with Cerebral Palsy entitled A.sexual or A.ble?"Sometimes I get tired of all these asexual assumptions. Like, what, a wheelchair is supposed to be the embrace one longs for on lonely nights? Blindness doesn't make pity glances and scoffing from the opposite gender (or in many cases, within GLBTQ groupings as well) any more palatable. Just because I might not be able to hear you doesn't mean I don't have a need to communicate my desire for wholeness in a romantic relationship. And though it might be obvious that I have Down Syndrome, or Autism, or fit neatly into any number of categories relegated to someone with a disability, am I not first a human being?"
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