I check the 'sometimes' box too. I have a Thing, and sometimes that Thing is an utter beast, and then other times it goes away and I feel like a fraud if I sit in the disabled seats because the "but you don't look sick." thing kicks in. (I still sit in them. Dammit.)
You push your body in ways that I cannot even comprehend, and I admire you wholeheartedly for that. I watched the Paralympics last night, saw Dave Weir, cried when Oscar only came second, bloody well sobbed when the lady with cerebral palsy won the dressage, cheered on all the people with 'disabilities' both visible and invisible, because OMG Olympians, but OMFG Paralympians.
My favourite story about Oscar is when he was being stared at my kids on the supermarket, and the moms all shushed the kids and told them not to stare. He welcomes it, told them to ask all the questions they wanted, and then told them that "This is what happens when you don't eat your greens."
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Date: 2012-09-03 09:48 pm (UTC)You push your body in ways that I cannot even comprehend, and I admire you wholeheartedly for that. I watched the Paralympics last night, saw Dave Weir, cried when Oscar only came second, bloody well sobbed when the lady with cerebral palsy won the dressage, cheered on all the people with 'disabilities' both visible and invisible, because OMG Olympians, but OMFG Paralympians.
My favourite story about Oscar is when he was being stared at my kids on the supermarket, and the moms all shushed the kids and told them not to stare.
He welcomes it, told them to ask all the questions they wanted, and then told them that "This is what happens when you don't eat your greens."
LOVE.
And much love to you, squirrels or no.