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[ClaraTaylor]

Why do so many disabled people embark on dangerous feats?

[tsh3406]

That journalist is too stupid to be allowed to live....

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[Vanessamaee]

Haha! My dad made the comment to me that he's noticed two main types of paraplegics (probably goes for any disability though) the ones that are depressed and dont handle it well or have self pity and then there are the ones that are crazy (he said any para he's met that is active or does something he's question their sanity) (: lol Guess which category I fall in!

[D. Smith]

Hmm, never realized that I partake in activities that before I got hurt I wouldn't try either. I guess that's what I get for taking a set of three-step stairs...

[edlee]

I liked the article. I found it well balanced,, and not "sugar coated".

Me,,, ??? Hell no,, I'm too old and fat to do any of that stuff,, and I,m pretty content,,,, most of the time. I think that part of the reason some of us do these things,,, is ,, opportunity. It's amazing what people will try to help you do, now that you are diabled,, that they wouldn't have offered you as an AB. The blind guy didn't get in that plane and get into the air without someone,,, or more than one,, helping. And he certainly didn't fly solo,,, but would these "helpers" have been so ready to help someone not disabled, who walked in and asked?

The other thing is time. Now we have more of it to spend as we can or choose. The motivational speaker aside,,, most of those doing this stuff,, aren't working for a living. He,, on the other hand,, KNOWS he's doing it for the money.

I got all the thrills I needed while I was working,,,, kinda lost the taste for it after 35 years of knowing that if I slipped I would probably die. Turned out I didn't quite die,,,, who knew?
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[knightrider]

We do it because we like to challenge ourselves with our new bodies after injury, even if you're born with a disability or just able bodied, challenging your mind and body has always happened its just some people either have that kind of goal or don't. It is an awesome way of raising money for much needed charities. Plus it's good to read or to see on the news

Edited by knightrider, 22 August 2011 - 10:08 PM.

[ClaraTaylor]

No self respecting newspaper gets overly excited when a "normal" person throws themselves out of a plane - thousands of thousands of people do it every year. But a cripple doing it - well it's a good news story and everyone loves those. If it that disabled people are all adrenaline hunting crazy people or is it that the world has become blind to the achievements of normal people?

[wheeliebear75]

How about because some people were just born adrenaline junkies? Some are just really REALLY motivated. I've got a cousin who runs marathons.....no she isn't disabled in any way....she just likes to "feel the burn".....I'm sure there are those who are just "like that", I doubt my cousin would stop marathons if she were in my shoes she'd just start doing it with racing-chairs or hand-cycles.

I 2nd that the journalists involved.....

[tsh3406]

It just pisses me off immensely when people make an issue of me being in a chair. So what if I am. I skydive. Is it honest to god any diffirent for me than anyone else? Being disabled does not make us adrenaline junkies, and if we were before the disability, why would it change afterwards? she's an idiot, lol...

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[Redish]

Dangerous feats....Like hell no !!!!

[Smileyblue]

Because they can...

[Denna]

Smileyblue, on 26 August 2011 - 05:21 PM, said:

Because they can...

dont tell me you and isobar jumped off the Falls! just cause you can doesnt mean you should! lol

[Smileyblue]

Not to worry Denna, the only "jumping" I do now is mostly referred to as spasming..

Personally I'm a real 'fraidy cat! With my spasms being back, every transfer is "a dangerous feat", so my adrenaline levels are quite well taken care of..