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Post by calimatt on Mar 21, 2018 17:50:50 GMT -5
Hi everyone, My name is Matthew, or matt for short, I am an incomplete c3 quadriplegic, although I function at the level of c5, and I'm from california, hence the name. I'm 18 years old and was injured just before I was about to move into my dorm for college, since then a lot has happened most of my friends either moved away for school or became distant in general after my accident, I spend most of my time with PT and other various drs appointments, recently i've tried to get back into gaming but that's an uphill battle when your hands don't really work too well haha, if anyone plays hearthstone let me know! Anyways I'm just looking to meet people to talk too who I don't feel the need to mask my disability too, I'm a single heterosexual male but I'm open to talking to anyone. A little more about me, I'm known to have a dry-ish sense of humor at times, I'm pretty easy to talk too I think, and it's okay to be a little strange, I promise I won't run away. ( mainly because I can't  (see dry humor) ) |
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Post by shape on Mar 21, 2018 18:06:55 GMT -5
Welcome Matt. How long have you been a pwd? And how did you find this place?
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Post by LaMara on Mar 21, 2018 18:11:09 GMT -5
Welcome Matt!!! Boy you make me feel old... |
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Post by calimatt on Mar 21, 2018 18:14:50 GMT -5
Welcome Matt. How long have you been a pwd? And how did you find this place? I've been a pwd for about 8 months, I found this place from a mention of it in a comment on a reddit post. I've been lurking here for a while now but I just recently decided to make an account. |
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Post by shape on Mar 21, 2018 18:36:18 GMT -5
Well, Matt, take a sit and enjoy the ride. Hope you'll fit here... Sure you will. Pretty young, I'm an oldie too, LaMara |
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Post by Manda2212 on Mar 21, 2018 18:38:02 GMT -5
Welcome Matt! I think you're the third new Matt this week 😃
How have you found the dev world to be from your lurking? Good, bad, indifferent? Was the mention on Reddit a positive one?
Glad to have you here.
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Post by calimatt on Mar 21, 2018 19:11:07 GMT -5
Welcome Matt! I think you're the third new Matt this week 😃 How have you found the dev world to be from your lurking? Good, bad, indifferent? Was the mention on Reddit a positive one? Glad to have you here. I felt like the impression I got from simply lurking really wasn't enough to make a fair assessment, that's kind of why i'm posting. Also it was just a mention of the sites existence, wasn't necessarily good or bad. |
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Post by laur on Mar 21, 2018 19:13:35 GMT -5
Welcome to PD! I found this place as a dev nearly 10 years ago and back then, I was also around 18. Since then, I've found this space to be a really meaningful place as a dev (even lurking many of those years!) I hope it's similarly a good space for you from the other side of things too!
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Post by gshotta on Mar 21, 2018 19:14:39 GMT -5
Getting injured so young is hard , I'm not a quad but I can say life does get easier and to 100% keep up with physio and whatever else you can advice I wish I took !
What platform do you use to game on?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2018 21:44:06 GMT -5
Hi everyone, My name is Matthew, or matt for short, I am an incomplete c3 quadriplegic, although I function at the level of c5, and I'm from california, hence the name. I'm 18 years old and was injured just before I was about to move into my dorm for college, since then a lot has happened most of my friends either moved away for school or became distant in general after my accident, I spend most of my time with PT and other various drs appointments, recently i've tried to get back into gaming but that's an uphill battle when your hands don't really work too well haha, if anyone plays hearthstone let me know! Anyways I'm just looking to meet people to talk too who I don't feel the need to mask my disability too, I'm a single heterosexual male but I'm open to talking to anyone. A little more about me, I'm known to have a dry-ish sense of humor at times, I'm pretty easy to talk too I think, and it's okay to be a little strange, I promise I won't run away. ( mainly because I can't (see dry humor) ) Hey Matt. First of all, welcome. This place has been an anchor for me at times so I hope you do stick around. I got hurt when I was 18 so I can probably relate to some of the shit you're going through and will inevitably go through. Feel free to reach out if you need. I don't game at all but I came across this in my previous job. www.quadstick.com/ |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2018 16:27:18 GMT -5
Welcome to PD. I hope it will be a good experience for you to be here. Definitely very young, yeah, I'm ancient compared to you...I want to say "I could be your mom" but that may be weird What interests me is since you just recently got injured, did you hear anything about devs during your rehab? |
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Post by mona on Mar 23, 2018 17:15:32 GMT -5
Welcome!
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Post by dannyboy95 on Mar 24, 2018 8:23:42 GMT -5
Hi everyone, My name is Matthew, or matt for short, I am an incomplete c3 quadriplegic, although I function at the level of c5, and I'm from california, hence the name. I'm 18 years old and was injured just before I was about to move into my dorm for college, since then a lot has happened most of my friends either moved away for school or became distant in general after my accident, I spend most of my time with PT and other various drs appointments, recently i've tried to get back into gaming but that's an uphill battle when your hands don't really work too well haha, if anyone plays hearthstone let me know! Anyways I'm just looking to meet people to talk too who I don't feel the need to mask my disability too, I'm a single heterosexual male but I'm open to talking to anyone. A little more about me, I'm known to have a dry-ish sense of humor at times, I'm pretty easy to talk too I think, and it's okay to be a little strange, I promise I won't run away. ( mainly because I can't (see dry humor) ) Welcome man! It is easy to lose contact to your old friends when moving to college and even easier when something like an accident changes your life drastically. I hope you'll find great people to talk to here and maybe even a girl. There are lots of people from California on here! If you like, you can also feel free to message me  |
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Post by thedanvan on Mar 24, 2018 14:51:45 GMT -5
recently i've tried to get back into gaming but that's an uphill battle when your hands don't really work too well haha Look into gimp gear |
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Post by Nia on Mar 25, 2018 18:21:34 GMT -5
Hi and super warm welcome.
It’s good that you have found us so fast after your injury because there are many guys in similar or even the same situation as you are facing and I’m sure that for starters you won’t be having to dig and browse a lot for answers and advices and support if needed
And we girls here, well we are something:) stick around and get to know us and I’m sure in time you will find what you are looking for/ amazing friendships, like minded ppl, probably even more but I can’t state that because we are not a dating site so admins will kill me:) but go and figure yourself - more marriages here than on tinder guaranteed:)
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