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 Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 6:38 pm
Is it me or is it hard to find people that understand and care? Any friends I've made have either not stayed long because of my condition or new ones haven't been bothered...anyone else found this? :S
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Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 6:59 pm
3nodding
they just don't get why i get a second set of books, when they have to carry their huge text books around all day.
I don't think that they can comprehend the fact that having 2lbs of metal, permanantly attached to your spine HURTS, esp. when you have a 30lb back pack.
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Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 6:52 pm
Some of my friends get it. Unfortunately, most of those don't go to my school.
Most of my friends at school are very physical people. I've tried to explain, but as best they understand, I'm a weak clutz who's double jointed. The finer points of EDS or that it's not my fault are lost on them. They get that I fall when I'm walking down the hall, but I'm not sure they really get why.
Some of my other friends from my old school get it. They know not to dash off and expect me to chase them and that they shouldn't grab my arm and try draging me, etc.
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Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 10:06 am
Its hard my friends really don't like the subject coming up about my spina bifta and some of the friends i've had have been kinda mean about it.
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Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 12:36 pm
Most of my friends don't even notice. They look at it,this way.That they are my friends because of who I am.I didn't choose to have this disability.
My girlfriend is the same,she's doesn't care that I have a mild disability.
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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 11:09 am
TheTwistdBlakCat Most of my friends don't even notice. They look at it,this way.That they are my friends because of who I am.I didn't choose to have this disability. My girlfriend is the same,she's doesn't care that I have a mild disability. Likewise. Through high school, few people cared about any disabilities of mine, and it was seldom a problem.
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Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 6:52 pm
My friends don't care.
When I had to wear oxygen we would always make jokes about me being "combustible".
They also say I'm lucky that I don't have to carry my textbooks all over school and have a separate set at home.
I'm also extremely skinny and I've had a couple gal pals say they wish they were as thin as me.
That I hate be cause I look anorexic.
Though I'm not anorexic, its half genetics and half medical side effect. xd
They're also pretty good about thinks that i can't do, though sometimes they do act a tinge over pertective.
I had one friend who wouldn't let me climb on top of the Cinderele's starcase (it was unfinished) because she didn't want me to fall.
Yet she's a fraid of hights and I'm pretty good at climbing things,
I've done it all my life, its one of the joys of being small.
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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 6:19 am
None of my friends, were bothered about my leg, and they all tried to understand, though obviosuly they couldnt. Most of my mates are very intrigued and curious by my prostethic leg, and it is always gives me something to talk about when i meet new people.
My deafness, however, seems to crate more problems when i meet people.
They usually think that we cant communicate is they dont know sign language so i get ignored a lot. But i'm perfectly capable of lip readin and speaking english, some people are just to rude to ask sometimes
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Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 12:08 am
I have a progressive neurological disease and friends have really been rough. A lot of people seem to just not want to deal with it, or feel sorry for me.
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Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:38 pm
Finding good friends is hard, my friends for the most part either don't want to acknowledge that I am different physically from them or pitty me and ask so many questions about if I'm okay and how I'm feeling. Urg, they don't understand that I am normal and it's not my fault that I am not at school and that I am trying so hard to be normal and their attitude isn't helping!
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High-functioning Bookworm
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 4:23 pm
I'm pretty socially inept and automatically distance myself from people, so I have very few friends. The guys I hang out with are assholes, but I'm usually much worse than they are. My real friends are great.
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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 4:06 pm
When I moved here after 5th grade...it was as if the world had ended. All the friends I had that I grew up with and understood me the most were in the past. Now...The town I live in now...As soon as I went in for MY first day of 6th grade [which was...kinda in the second quarter, but whatever.]...everyone gave me the weirdest looks. There was only one other kid here in a wheelchair...but she was in grade school, and couldn't talk. So...Naturally, no one knew what to "do with me".
I learned recently that the reason my first friend here [who I considered my best friend...mostly because I had no one else] was because she felt sorry for me. >_>;; Nice.
Fast forward to Junior year. There was this boy I had a HUGE crush on...but still felt like he was such a far away reach...I'd never be able to talk to him.
...He's my best friend now. BEST friend. Anyone treats me unfairly because of my chair? >_> They better avoid him as best as they can. Really. He's also such a sweetheart. He offered to build a ramp in front of his house so I could get in it. But then he figured out how to get me up the two little steps. :3 He's funny. Around his house, he won't let me push myself. He'll do it. ;D I love that boy...IRL, he's all I got. And now he moved to Montana for a year. -Sad-
But.
That's me...and friends and stuff.
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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 4:21 pm
TheLittleGirlFromTheWell When I moved here after 5th grade...it was as if the world had ended. All the friends I had that I grew up with and understood me the most were in the past. Now...The town I live in now...As soon as I went in for MY first day of 6th grade [which was...kinda in the second quarter, but whatever.]...everyone gave me the weirdest looks. There was only one other kid here in a wheelchair...but she was in grade school, and couldn't talk. So...Naturally, no one knew what to "do with me".
I learned recently that the reason my first friend here [who I considered my best friend...mostly because I had no one else] was because she felt sorry for me. >_>;; Nice.
Fast forward to Junior year. There was this boy I had a HUGE crush on...but still felt like he was such a far away reach...I'd never be able to talk to him.
...He's my best friend now. BEST friend. Anyone treats me unfairly because of my chair? >_> They better avoid him as best as they can. Really. He's also such a sweetheart. He offered to build a ramp in front of his house so I could get in it. But then he figured out how to get me up the two little steps. :3 He's funny. Around his house, he won't let me push myself. He'll do it. ;D I love that boy...IRL, he's all I got. And now he moved to Montana for a year. -Sad-
But.
That's me...and friends and stuff. It sound's like you eventually got lucky ^^! I think it takes a certain type of person to be a good friend, and an extra special type of person to befriend but not belittle some one who isn't as able as them smile
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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 4:40 pm
Shimi-Baka TheLittleGirlFromTheWell When I moved here after 5th grade...it was as if the world had ended. All the friends I had that I grew up with and understood me the most were in the past. Now...The town I live in now...As soon as I went in for MY first day of 6th grade [which was...kinda in the second quarter, but whatever.]...everyone gave me the weirdest looks. There was only one other kid here in a wheelchair...but she was in grade school, and couldn't talk. So...Naturally, no one knew what to "do with me".
I learned recently that the reason my first friend here [who I considered my best friend...mostly because I had no one else] was because she felt sorry for me. >_>;; Nice.
Fast forward to Junior year. There was this boy I had a HUGE crush on...but still felt like he was such a far away reach...I'd never be able to talk to him.
...He's my best friend now. BEST friend. Anyone treats me unfairly because of my chair? >_> They better avoid him as best as they can. Really. He's also such a sweetheart. He offered to build a ramp in front of his house so I could get in it. But then he figured out how to get me up the two little steps. :3 He's funny. Around his house, he won't let me push myself. He'll do it. ;D I love that boy...IRL, he's all I got. And now he moved to Montana for a year. -Sad-
But.
That's me...and friends and stuff. It sound's like you eventually got lucky ^^! I think it takes a certain type of person to be a good friend, and an extra special type of person to befriend but not belittle some one who isn't as able as them smile
Yeah...The harder part is the fact that he no longer lives here...and has yet to reply to my texts. >_>; Oh well.
Maybe I might get luckier in college. :]
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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 4:59 pm
My college do you mean university? x.x
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