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Registered: April 29, 2003
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if you ever decide to make fun of someone, or mock them becuase of something they cant control, i dare you to take a walk in someone elses shoes. i know that i did. i used to think that peopel in wheelchairs had life so easy, until i spent a day in one for a school project. i know i was only in it for a day and i only experienced a fraction of what people in wheelchairs go through everyday, but what a eye openers. it anyone ever makes fun of someone, try living life like them. that should show you some true love.
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Registered: November 27, 2002
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have you ever read the book walk two moons? I wouldn't recommend it because t is slow, but they have a catchy phrase for what you speak of:
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Don't judge another man until you've walk two moons in his moccasins.

I like the way they put that.Thought maybe you would too.
Registered: December 29, 2002
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Um, for some girls this is a big thing.

When your a baby and your hair is cut entirely off and you have a scar in the center of your head. Your mother had to make you wear a hat because the heat from the sun might give you a bad headache. However, you might already have a headache. You cry and cry but there's really nothing no one could do about it. Because you cried so much, you got a hernia on both your legs and so you needed another operation because of that and the operations went from there. One after another, like nothing at all, it's all gravy.

Bye N Have a nice day
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Registered: December 30, 2001
Posts: 325
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It's not just being in a wheelchair, though. Like you could try to wear a blindfold for a day, to try and see how it is to be blind. Or if you're against homosexuals, try having to have your relationships and sexual feelings hidden for a week. If you're having unprotected sex, take care of a baby (with no help) for a day or if possible more. and so on.
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Registered: May 18, 2002
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When my sister broke her leg she was in a wheelchair for three days around school. Boy was that an eye-opener. It showed her who her real friends were (the ones that didn't abandon her with nobody to wheel her to her next lesson) and the amount some people will take advantage. There were some girls who tried to put obstacles in the way of the chair and gathered round bugging her because she couldn't do anything about it. Also, how hard it is to talk to people. You're below their eyeline so in a group you can't get anyone's attention.

She hated it so much that she started struggling around school on crutches as soon as she possibly could (with a full-leg cast!)

So yeah, being in a wheelchair is really tough.

Bex
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Registered: December 30, 2001
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practice what you preach sweetie


She just said she spent a day in a wheelchair bercause she thought they had it easy. So what are you on about?
Registered: December 29, 2002
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Hopefully, I never made fun of someone for something so tivial as in their difference in the way they look, talk, dress, act, and everything and anything else that makes them who they are.

Hopefully, I never did that. If I did then I was tremendously lethargic, callous, venomous and juvenile at that period of my inconsequential life.

I'm apologetic and I would do anything to take any inconvenience I have caused to anyone.


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Registered: April 20, 2003
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practice what you preach sweetie
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