Title: Sci appearances
I agree with you there definatly. There have been times that when I
have to go somewhere after looking like a bum all day. I get
changed, brush my hair, and if I look terrible that day, throw on a little
makeup. I don't want to be seen in that way at all and you never know who
you are going to run into where I live so I really want to look good in case I
run into someone I know, I don't want them to go and tell everyone how horrible
I looked and have everyone feel bad for me.
Stacy
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 5:14
PM
Subject: Sci appearances
Jim you are
correct about taking care yourself to look attractive. I see a lot of my
neighbors there are wheelchairs looking like they just don�t care about their
appearance any more. And I fill that them looking and dressing as they do it
has an effect of the way others look towards me and everyone else in
wheelchairs. Just because I�m disabled doesn�t mean that I have to look as if
I and homeless and a bum. Just as several of my neighbors will go up to the
grocery store with their overnight bed bag hanging on the outset of their
chairs. Which looks a mess it reflects upon the others in our community that
are in chairs. I don�t want to see it and I know that the average AB truly
doesn�t want to see it. I understand if there�s no other way but if you could
put it in a bag so that everyone didn�t have 2 C your piss well why not. They
go around as if it�s a new fashion statement.
On 1/11/05 3:12 PM,
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dave,
I know that I'm paralyzed and I
accept the fact that I am. I know what I can do and I know what I
cannot do from experience. When I first got injured I figured I could
still do just about everything I did before but I learned quickly how
vulnerable I was and what being paralyzed was all about. It seemed
like just about every time I blew off my commonsense and my spider sense I
ended up in trouble. Now, I respect that I am paralyzed and can only
do so much so I better pay attention to my senses otherwise am going to be
in trouble especially in the wintertime.
I know that I am not
looked at as a sexual object because of the way I look in a wheelchair.
Even though I lost a lot of weight since my injury I still have a
large quad gut, which makes me look somewhat obese and unattractive.
Even if you are in a wheelchair you still have to take care of
yourself to make yourself look attractive to the opposite
sex.
Jim
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