Pure Grit: Stories of Remarkable People Living With Physical Disability by Lily Collison & Kara Buckley

Author:Lily Collison & Kara Buckley [Collison, Lily & Buckley, Kara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781952181030
Google: C1hGzgEACAAJ
Publisher: Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare
Published: 2021-06-20T23:20:20.762952+00:00

Tom Shakespeare

Different, but in a good way

Tom is a social scientist, bioethicist, and

academic. He has restricted growth.

On his website, Tom Shakespeare describes his foray into online dating:

Finding myself unaccountably single, and dissatisfied with that state of affairs . . . I decided to do what all middle-aged middle-class people do, and advertise. The [dating] website was quite particular. Lots of questions about interests and desires. I was about to put myself out there when a question arose. What to say about disability? Would it be a turn-off to admit that not only did I have dwarfism, but that I am also now in a wheelchair? Could a date with a cripple possibly appear attractive? I could withhold the truth, only to disappoint later. Or I could come clean, and risk no responses at all. In the end, I was frankly coy. My slogan was ‘different, but in a good way,’ and from my photographs it was clear that I had a disability.1

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