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    Ken YadiggitDayna Troisi
    5/04/16 11:29am

    This was so, so great.

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      SqarrKen Yadiggit
      5/04/16 11:33am

      Agreed.

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      Let's eat firstSqarr
      5/04/16 11:54am

      Agreed agreed! Well written, engaging and informative. Should be a YA book and a movie.

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    deerlady83Dayna Troisi
    5/04/16 11:53am

    Reading your piece reminds me of how uncomfortable I get with “inspiration” stories about people with disabilities. They follow a pattern of something bad happening to someone and they overcome it. It seems to flatten the person out making them feel less real and flawless. They don’t feel like people instead they become a saint. It doesn’t consider the person might be sexual or even they might still be a bit of an asshole. I remember watching a bit of a documentary about guys in wheelchairs who played rugby. One of their friends interviewed said his friend was an asshole before the wheelchair and he was still one now.

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      The Obsidian Orderdeerlady83
      5/04/16 12:09pm

      My sort of cousin (texas, it’s complicated) lost his leg in a motorcycle accident, and my family seemed legitimately surprised that it didn’t change him as a person. Other than having a prosthetic, he’s still the same giant douche nozzle he always was.

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      johnseaveydeerlady83
      5/04/16 12:11pm

      I remember hearing from the director of “Psycho Beach Party” (a movie based on a stage play) that differently abled actresses thanked him all the time for writing a character who used a wheelchair and was a complete, thundering bitch. They said all the roles written for them were saintly noble sufferers, and they relished the chance to play someone fucking terrible for a change. :)

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    LaComtesseDayna Troisi
    5/04/16 11:42am

    Love this! And it leads me to a question that I hope is not uncouth for anyone who might be in the know...

    “She stood on two long prosthetic legs.”

    When you are in the market for two prosthetic legs (and therefore don’t need to match one to an existing limb), how does one calculate how long they should be? I’d imagine the answer is “whatever length is required to achieve maximum comfort and mobility” but how is that determined?

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      meeting people is easyLaComtesse
      5/04/16 11:46am

      So you can “pick” your height if you’d like but they can mostly tell by your torso and arm length what an appropriate height should be.

      I know one double amp who clearly should be 5'4 but hoists her legs up to make herself 5'10. She looks RIDICULOUS all the time.

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      Ken YadiggitLaComtesse
      5/04/16 11:46am

      That’s actually a good question. I guess it’s a matter of ‘what looks proportional’ and ‘how tall do you wanna be?’.

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    madscientistDayna Troisi
    5/04/16 11:38am

    It was the first time I’d ever put my hair up without help.

    I burst into tears. Fuck, I thought. Just when the cool girl talks to me, I cry.

    But she understood.

    I’m not crying you’re crying.

    This was an amazing read. Thank you!

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      hellbetty666madscientist
      5/04/16 11:55am

      No, you’re crying!

      I have allergies...

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      madscientisthellbetty666
      5/04/16 12:08pm

      Well I have onions!

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    Captain MohawkDayna Troisi
    5/04/16 11:43am

    Great piece. This should be a movie!

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      Ken YadiggitCaptain Mohawk
      5/04/16 11:51am

      Shut up and take my money. I’d love a film about this camp and the girl’s friendship.

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      hellbetty666Captain Mohawk
      5/04/16 11:54am

      I would watch this. I would also cry.

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    Madge SmurtzDayna Troisi
    5/04/16 12:54pm

    I’d like to know Alexandria’s camp story.

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      Moses HightowerMadge Smurtz
      5/04/16 2:35pm

      Alexandria’s camp story is the same as every other* outsider’s camp story. “People suck.”

      *Generality (obvs), noted because Internet.

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      riceberryMoses Hightower
      5/04/16 9:01pm

      And she played DnD and expanded her imagination with detailed imagery and characterization.

      #dnd4lyfe

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    femi-what?!Dayna Troisi
    5/04/16 6:31pm

    It’s good to know that D&D players are ostracized in every community.

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      sayyadinafemi-what?!
      5/05/16 12:46pm

      I really hope Alexandria found her people.

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    MostlyKelp ( Now, you people get that oven, or die trying. You hear that, Stormy? DIE.)Dayna Troisi
    5/04/16 11:49am

    This whole thing just reminds me of that 1996 Cronberg film Crash. Specifically that scene with the leg, I don’t know how I just went down that rabbit hole.

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      besswwwMostlyKelp ( Now, you people get that oven, or die trying. You hear that, Stormy? DIE.)
      5/04/16 12:41pm

      really? because it has nothing in common with that movie except that the woman in it has a prosthetic leg. In fact this is exactly the oversexualized thing she is talking about.

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    adultosaur married anna on the astral planeDayna Troisi
    5/04/16 11:41am

    excellent

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      zoe_koala (on_a_tricycle)Dayna Troisi
      5/05/16 10:30am

      This was good. Both for the message, but also for creating that atmosphere of “last summer before we are adult, and the sun is tanning our skins”.

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