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by Marie - 31 March 2007
Did you watch MacGyver? Do you remember the “Jenny’s Chance” episode? ;) I think that was my first awareness of deafness, actually! It’s amusing but in the series MacGyver puts headphones on a deaf girl to test some crazy system that makes deaf people hear…
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by Sean - 30 March 2007
I wasn’t very old when I started haunting the public library and the local university’s medical library. I was looking for information about orthopaedics, wheelchairs, and other apparatus. It wasn’t long before I was also looking and learning about spinal cord injuries.
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by Claire - 18 March 2007
Going through boxes of old books this weekend I came across an old diary. I confess I wasn’t a very regular writer - in a 3-year period there are a total of 13 entries. I quickly read through them, and came across an entry, dated 1981.
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by jim - 3 March 2007
There was a boy in my neighborhood that was paraplegic from polio. He was probably 3 years older than me and didn’t go to our public school. One summer we played wiffle ball in the street every afternoon. The kid, (Earl was his name) would play too.
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by Claire - 20 February 2007
Once when I was 18 or so, I was at the mall and I saw a beautiful young paraplegic woman. My heart started pounding and my breath came quick - I wanted to be her! I followed her discreetly around the mall, drinking it all in, I loved how she gracefully pushed her chair, how atrophied her legs were, and how she interacted cheerfully with everyone around her.
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