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Three dwarves, standing on their heads
Written by Sean on Saturday, March 4, 2006
Or: But you’re so pretty, what a shame…
I am currently corresponding with not one, but two young, pretty and attractive women who are transabled. And before you get ideas, no, I have no desire to get "involved" with them, not that way. I’m too old for them (or they are too young for me), and in any case, I’m currently involved in a relationship, and I don’t "fool around". But that’s another story anyway, what I want to talk about is that it struck me the other day that you don’t often meet young, pretty, and attractive transabled gals. In fact, for a dozen years, I only corresponded with a couple. And two (possibly three) surfaced in the last 6 months… Hmmmm.
Sophie, you already know about. The other, let’s call her Maria (I was going to call her Brooke, but she adamently refused! <wink to Maria>), wants/needs to be blind (although that is evolving somewhat). So, ok, one paraplegic, the other blindness, but as I keep saying, it doesn’t matter what "flavour" of transabled you are, it’s pretty much all the same thing.
So the other day , as I was on my way to pick up pizza for dinner, I had a weird thought. I thought "What a shame, they are so pretty, why are they in such emotional pain?". It was a rather strange thought.
In a way, it was a bit like thinking that you have to have a particular look to be this strange/weird/whatever. Isn’t it buying into some strange dictat from society to say that if you’re young and pretty, you possibly can’t have anything "wrong" with you? One look at someone like that and you can’t imagine that they have their own demons.
It’s wrong, of course, we all have our demons, some are bigger and uglier than others (the demons that is). But we all have *something* that’s going on.
What puzzles me is that I thought this thought in the first place. Surely I know better. And I guess I do in a way, since I was able to "correct" it fairly fast after thinking it and realise how wrong it was. But still, it came through my mind.
Hmmm. Still a bit unclear in my own head. Do *you* understand what I’m trying to say? If you do, drop me a note, I’d love to hear it! LOL
I should point out that the title of this “bit” is entirely Maria’s fault who never writes in her email subject that remotely relates to the body of said email. So this one’s for you Maria!
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