It's a bit funny that I have only interacted with the RQ community (not be a part of) for less than a week and already I found more transIDs I like to use for myself. I have thought that it would take a lot longer to find something else that resonated.
Anyway, I'm coming out as Caneian on this blog because I have a lot to say about why I resonate with this label.
On Transid.org Caneian is defined as "a term for someone who uses a cane even if they don't 'physically' need to."
Now, I've said in the past that I do need a cane for the pain in my leg/hip on days it flares up. Which someone can argue that I do need this cane "physicaly" I am in pain and that is a physical thing, but, that's not true in a sense that even on my really bad pain days when the pain is the equivalent of being stabbed in the hip with a knife the only thing an outsider would be able to see is maybe my walking gait is a bit off.
The thing is that pain is quite invisible if the person in pain just pushes though it without making a peep about the awful it was to walk that day. Then you, the viewer, would be none of the wiser about what I'm going though.
I'm quite used to being assumed that I'm a 'normal' being because all of my disabilities are invisible. Many beings meeting me for the first time don't even know I'm deaf till I tell them and show off my Cochlear Implants to them. Since I talk so well thanks to the efforts of my parents doing everything to make me pass in this society being able to hear and communicate with the hearing.
All of this to say that I'm proud of looking into a cane and planning to get one despite the fact I "physically" don't need one. I'm done with being in pain and hiding it. I want to walk in comfort even in my worst pain flares. I am happy to be Caneian! β€οΈβπ₯
