Poll of the Day > I can't stop thinking about this baby I saw today...

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He had fingers on only one hand. The other hand looked like this but no thumb nub: http://www.tsrhc.org/img/HandDisorders/symbrachydactyly1.jpg


And I couldnt stop thinking about how he's a baby right now and he doesn't care or know that he has this condition. But he's gonna grow up and have a poorer quality of life compared to everyone else. And it's not his fault! He didnt choose to be born like that.
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Adults with deformities have existed for as long as the human race has. These adults were babies at one point you know? Hardly noteworthy.
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People have overcome challenges like that and done great things throughout history. Maybe that baby will too.
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Mead posted...

People have overcome challenges

oh yeah? name one.
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DirtBasedSoap posted...

Mead posted...

People have overcome challenges

oh yeah? name one.

Christie Brown.

I wonder what it's like to be born with a deformity that affects your quality of life. Having it from birth, you wouldn't really know what it's like to be able bodied. But eventually you would grow up and learn how different you are. Would you be resentful or use it as a motivation to improve yourself out of spite? Or would you just go about your life as you knew it without any thought of your "disability", if you would even consider it one?

wwinterj25 posted...

Adults with deformities have existed for as long as the human race has. These adults were babies at one point you know? Hardly noteworthy.

Especially when you consider that multiple cultures in the past would have left that baby on a hillside to die of exposure or be eaten by wolves rather than let a deformed child grow up and become a burden to everyone else, or just otherwise "fail to be perfect".


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My boss's hands are all fucked up and I am constantly amazed that it literally does nothing to slow him down

DirtBasedSoap posted...

Mead posted...

People have overcome challenges

oh yeah? name one.

Beethoven. Helen Keller. Temple Grandin. That is just off the top of my head.

Was that a serious question?
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Snuggletoof posted...

I wonder what it's like to be born with a deformity that affects your quality of life. Having it from birth, you wouldn't really know what it's like to be able bodied. But eventually you would grow up and learn how different you are. Would you be resentful or use it as a motivation to improve yourself out of spite? Or would you just go about your life as you knew it without any thought of your "disability", if you would even consider it one?

The fact that he has one completely fine, working hand means that he has some comprehension of what it feels like to be able-bodied. Although sure, he won't have the same adjustment phase that others do.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

wwinterj25 posted...

Adults with deformities have existed for as long as the human race has. These adults were babies at one point you know? Hardly noteworthy.

Especially when you consider that multiple cultures in the past would have left that baby on a hillside to die of exposure or be eaten by wolves rather than let a deformed child grow up and become a burden to everyone else, or just otherwise "fail to be perfect".

Or thrown it off a cliff if it didn't cry loudly enough when you slapped it. It was really a different time. That said, a lot of cultures throughout history have allowed children with minor deformities to grow up rather than killing them. Likewise, people who lost limbs in war could still work to some extent.

Mead posted...

DirtBasedSoap posted...

Mead posted...

People have overcome challenges

oh yeah? name one.

Beethoven. Helen Keller. Temple Grandin. That is just off the top of my head.

That's three. He wanted one.
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