I was watching one of these archaeology programs on tv last night. They were showing the excavation of a skeleton, and it made me wonder: if my body was buried and dug up centuries later, would it show I had cerebral palsy? Would the archaeologists be able to tell I was a disabled man, or would I just look like any other skeleton? CP is quite a big part of who I am; by and large it has shaped my life and my personality, but would that be reflected in my bones? I’m not sure: my skeleton, I am told, has been partially distorted, but future archaeologists might put that down to something else. At the end of the day, whether they will or won’t be able to tell I had CP doesn’t matter – I will, by definition, be dead – yet I can’t help wondering, will such a significant part of what makes me, me be visible to future archaeologists, or will it be lost to the past, making my remains just like any other.