Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: cohousing and disabilities

[Fred H. Olson (fholson]

On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, robin waller wrote:

> When I was at the cohousing conference in Sept. I was scared to talk
> about my MS. I'm very interested in cohousing, but I'm not sure if I
> could put in the amount of work it takes to start one.  It seems very
> tiring, and I'd be afraid the other people would think that I was not
> fulfilling my obligation. 

Robin,

I just thought I'd point out that a variation of this topic has come up
before.  There is an article on www.cohousing.org about cohousing and
chronic fatigue syndrome.  (Search for fatigue etc)  I looked it up
recently  when a woman with csf contacted me about our cohousing 
proposal.

The development phase of cohousing can be arduous for sure; the easiest
way to become a resident in cohousing (for anyone ) is to be willing to
move to an already developed community that has units available. (NOte
that there is a downside to this approach to the dgree that much 
community building - getting to know the other folks takes place during 
the planning and development phase.  A bit like me liking to have gotten
up early - desireable in retrospect.

Fred

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