Ask A Cripple

[TeddyPicker]

Originally Posted by NoArmsJames

All the time. People associate disability with retardation daily. I deal with it depending on the situation.

Usually telling them I'd appreciate being spoken to like the educated adult I am gets my message across.

you've never had to blurt out a big old FFUUUUCCCKKKK YOOOU to get their attention??
i'm looking for the juicy stuff here!

[NoArmsJames]

Originally Posted by rachel

QFT.

You are a fascinating man. Wow.

How do you wipe your ass?

I have a personal care attendant here during the afternoons, she wipes it for me.

[NoArmsJames]

Originally Posted by TeddyPicker

you've never had to blurt out a big old FFUUUUCCCKKKK YOOOU to get their attention??
i'm looking for the juicy stuff here!

Honestly I don't normally have enough balls to do it.

If I've been drinking I sometimes pull out my 'defensive handicapped guy' character though.

[arty]

Do you know DJQuad?

Do you tend to hang out with other cripples?

[NoArmsJames]

Originally Posted by arty

Do you know DJQuad?

Do you tend to hang out with other cripples?

I've never heard of DJQuad.

I actually have no crippled friends, just AbleBodies.

[ababuu]

how do you get around?

[NoArmsJames]

Originally Posted by ababuu

how do you get around?

With my electric wheelchair

[ababuu]

how do you control it? same left leg that you type with?

also, do you use a special keyboard layout to type? i can't picture how you'd type with only one foot. especially since you're capitalizing.

[NoArmsJames]

Originally Posted by ababuu

how do you control it? same left leg that you type with?

also, do you use a special keyboard layout to type? i can't picture how you'd type with only one foot. especially since you're capitalizing.

Yes, that picture doesn't show the controls, but I use my foot for that too.

Nope, standard keyboard with a standard layout. I use an accessibility feature built into most OSes called Sticky Keys for capitalization.

[HumbleNarrator]

Originally Posted by NoArmsJames

For some reason I identify more with injury victims then I do with people with congenital defects.

Is your condition the result of congenital defects, or injury?