Coming Soon–Shadow of My Former Self Installments
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“Not many people have the misfortune, or privilege, however you feel about it, to own and operate an artificial appendage. But those of us who do, through design or default, are privy to a few “different” experiences in life that can sometimes fall into the category of humorous. Or to the more pristine soul, morbidly [...] From Regional Mobility Magazine, March, 1986 “In the past two months I wrote columns on gimps and supergimps, referring mainly to leg amputees since that’s the one ‘category’ of disability I, as an above the knee amputee, understand best…” Click here to continue reading Puppets Raise Kids’ Consciousness of Disabilities “For a one-woman operation, Paula Johnson shares her office with a lot of people. They’re lined up in the corner of her cubicle in Aylesworth Hall, Colorado State University, like a softball team posing for a championship picture.” Click Here to Continue Reading From Regional Mobility Magazine, December, 1985 “We all joke around about relative levels of disability. Above-the-knee amputees (ak’s) will joke around about below-the-knee amputees: “B-ks are almost human.” But let’s face it. Sometimes even a b-k feels like a real gimp. I once met a freestyle skier who had blown her knee out the previous season and [...] From, Regional Mobility Magazine, February, 1986 “Last month I made a distinction between the person with an athletic injury and the “real gimp’ This month’s column is a commentary on the rarest breed of gimp, the supergimp. In case you’re not familiar with the term, gimps are humans possessing an abnormal walking style, commonly described as a [...] |
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