It's also possible that she may not want to be cured. Many people with disabilities tend to see the disability as an important part of who they are. While many disabled people accept tools to help them function in society one of their key beliefs is that the disability makes them who they are and feel that if they could be turned into an able bodied person they would lose a signifgant part of their identity. Now granted, much of this may also have to do with the fact that we don't quite have the technology to cure spinal cord injuries.
For Perry the trip to Destiny may have been a nice escape, but she may not have wanted to live there forever.
An illness confined Adrian Conrad to a wheelchair and after he was taken as a host was able to walk like an able bodied person.
For Perry the trip to Destiny may have been a nice escape, but she may not have wanted to live there forever.
Originally posted by escyos
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