Post by Celaena on Nov 5, 2015 19:19:31 GMT -5
Nov 3, 2015 22:40:13 GMT -5 @tc123 said:
I have so many childhood dev memories.My first dev dream I can remember was when I was 2-3 yo. I dreamt that both of my parents were dak amps. They were both laying in bed, and their "stumps" were really hotdogs (I was a toddler). I cried & cried that night.
I had another dream sometime probably around 5-6yo that Walt Disney's pencil was chasing Mickey Mouse around a sheet of paper trying to erase all of his limbs
I had a childhood boy-friend who I would make pretend he was my dak amp husband for years. Which basically just meant I dragged him around the basement for a few hours.
I remember being about 7 and being with my mom, and I saw another little girl my age pushing her mom in a wheelchair, and I was devastated for her. This type of thing happened a few times, it seemed like the worst possible thing to happen to a child (at that time). I feel horrible that I ever felt that way now, but it has always caused very stong emotion in me. Good and bad. I feel the opposite about wheeler dads now.
I think my devness definitely started as a full on fear, and later turned into full blown fascination. I also forgot completely that my first thoughts were all very amp geared until very recently.
In Jr High, there was a quad algebra teacher at my school. He was probably C6-7 & used a manual chair. His classroom was at the base of a pretty steep slope/ramp and he'd always ask a student to help push him up the slope a few times a day, just as they were passing. I tended to hang around that ramp a lot over the 3 years :/ He only taught 9th grade & there were 2 algebra teachers and we were randomly assigned to one. For 2 years I prayed I would get his class and I did end up getting his class.
I learned SO much about Sci from just observing him that year. I witnessed my first spasms (didn't know about those yet), studied his hands, learned the difference between quad and paras, etc. when I went to high school, my friend's mom married him (I totally wondered if she was 'like me' too at the time). So I also got to see his home, how he lived, drove, ate, etc. It was from him that I first heard the term "Able bodied." And the first time I distinguished the difference.
Wow- that is so cool that you have such vivid memories from being younger. The only very vivid dev memory I have was from when I was probably about 8 or so, shortly after my uncle who was a paraplegic died in a scuba diving accident.
It was late-ish and I was watching Nick at Night. The terrible series "The Bradys" came on. In one of the episodes, Bobby was a race car driver and he crashed his car and became a paraplegic. I was supposed to go to bed at like 9:00, but it wasn't until like 9:30 that my mom came in and made me go upstairs. I told her I wanted to finish the episode because I wanted to see what happened to Bobby. I wanted to know if he got cured (what I now know to be super cliched) or how he handled it. My mom refused to let me stay up to finish it and I threw QUITE the fit. To this day, I still haven't watched the end of that episode.
So though it was not in person, it is one of my earliest memories of me as someone who was drawn to a guy in a wheelchair.
Has anyone seen that show? I'm sure it is absolutely horrible in terms of media portrayal, but I still remember it 20 years later!