anonymity

An Open Letter to "Anonymous" -- You Can't Break Me

A couple of years after I started blogging, you’d pop up every so often -- always under the ever-so-clever Anonymous moniker, of course -- with a comment about how I looked or a dig at my disability.
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Issues, anonymity, disability, commenters, hate

Dec 14, 2012 at 4:00pm | 161 comments

kissing

I'm a 31-Year-Old Virgin Who's Never Been Kissed, and My Disability Isn't Holding Me Back, It's My Fear

I have finally heard from the man of my dreams, but my nervousness -- not my disability -- is holding me back from making my dream of a first kiss come true.
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Relationships, kissing, virginity, disability

Nov 23, 2012 at 3:00pm | 59 comments

freeman sheldon syndrome

I Am One of 100 People Living With Freeman-Sheldon Syndrome, and This is What I've Come to Realize True Beauty Is

I was sure my physical disability was my embarrassing beauty mark. No, not beauty mark. Ugly mark.
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It Happened To Me, Freeman Sheldon Syndrome, disability, healthy

Oct 12, 2012 at 11:00am | 142 comments