Solitude, Death or Success

Solitude, Death or Success? In his essay, "My Withered Limb", Tobin Siebers begins by pointing out a small but very important difference between himself and other people. How do you tell your right from your left? The author states that most people require "an act of imagination"(1:1), or the use of some type of memory trick. Tobin, however, has a constant "compass"(2:1) of rightness, his polio ridden, deformed leg. Stricken by polio, Siebers describes the …

…tried, he was different from everyone else despite the fact that he tried desperately not to be. The author seems to have overlooked a few key facts. Tobin Siebers is a happily married man with children, a house, a successful career, friends and a social life. Many so called healthy people are struggling to reach this level of achievement in their lives and possibly will never achieve it. Maybe they could be labeled as "disabled".