Accepting and embracing life as a strokie
I’ve often mentioned in the past how disabled people understand naturism better than the able-bodied because they aren’t judged on how they look. It doesn’t matter if you walk with a limp, or you’re in a wheelchair, or you have a slightly wonky arm, or you talk funny, or wear a stoma bag because naturists don’t judge you on things like that; we judge you on who you are and what you do and what you’ve achieved. It’s one of the things that attracted me to naturism in the first place. This week, I’ve been having some fascinating conversations with an amazing lady who epitomises that attitude. Anna Higgs had a life-changing stroke at 24, just a month after her son was born. Her stroke was due to hormones from childbirth. I was 49 when I had my ‘life-changing event’ and I thought I was among the younger category of stroke-survivors until I started looking into it. As she puts it: ‘’my right arm doesn’t do much, I walk with a limp after spending a few years in a wheelchair and I...