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From: era@ncar.ucar.edu (Ed Arnold)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: CP Relationships
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Date: 22 Feb 90 04:42:16 GMT
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Index Number: 6890

In article <10240@bunker.UUCP> Dave.West.@hnews.fidonet.org writes:
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|RP> From: rocker@eve.wright.edu (Ronnie Peugh)
|RP> Message-ID: <10018@bunker.UUCP>
|RP> Index Number: 6617
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|RP> I find it interresting, but FUSTRATING, that all my life I have
|RP> gotten along with girls/women very well, but only once, way back in
|RP> 6th grade, did any of them look at me as a male (rather than an
|RP> "it" - as I feel like now)
|RP> I was just wondering if there are any CPs on the net who have meet
|RP> someone and have been involved in a relationship.  How did you meet?
|RP> How did they first react to your handicap?
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|I agree with you Ron. I have cerebal palsy and have gotten the same
|treatment from females.

Did either of you see "My Left Foot"?  There are some poignant scenes
in this movie, in which Christy Brown deals with the problem you describe.
If you haven't seen it, by all means try to.

The message I got from the movie is that people with disabilities have
to make an extraordinary effort to get the things "normal" people take
for granted: including displaying extraordinary levels of personality,
and possibly using (what most people would consider) offensive tactics
to break through the "wall" which "normal" people put up.
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