The sum of my parts!

I am more than a sum of my parts!

I'm gay. It's not a secret. I haven't been in the closet for years. Some how though it is the first thing that comes up when people are speaking to me. Okay sure, I'm butch and and probably a walking stereo type of what people think when they think a lesbian should look like. It is who I am, but it is not all that I am. I am much more than my love orientation (I hate the term sexual orientation because first thing people think about is sex!)

When I'm suffering from an MS attack the first thing people see is my cane, or walker, or wheel chair. I am more than the apparatus that helps me walk. I am more than my battle with MS and Depression. It is a fight, and one that I probably won't win. By God I hope they come up with a cure and I do hold out hope, but the inevitable battle still goes on. If MS wants a fight, I will go out kicking and screaming against it.

There are different faces that I wear in any given situation. When I am at Karate I have my training face on, when I am with my child I have my Mom face on, when I am with my parents I have my child face on. All of these faces are me. There is so much more to me than the face that I put on, there is a whole big brain beneath that face that allows me to make choices and create things and inside my head I look different than what I look like on the outside.

So the next time you see someone walking down the street and you judge them by just one thing, remember it says more about you than it does about them.