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[russ1]

In the car at the weekend on the way home from waterskiing my two (13 yrs and 10 yrs) and I were discussing injury levels, quads, paras, completes and incompletes. We were talking about very high level quads and my son asked if that was what caused the slobbering spasming symptoms you see sometimes - I said no that that wasn't a SCI injury at which point my daughter (the 13yr old) butted in with "no - they're proper disabled" the very clear implication being that she doesn't consider her dad as properly disabled but somewhere short of that.

We ribbed her about this for a bit but I did tell her a bit later how great it was that she doesn't think of me as really disabled. It's left me with a nice warm feeling ever since.

Just thought I'd share that with you all

Edited by russ1, 11 September 2006 - 09:51 PM.

[Dancingdolphin]

...Kids are great...so direct, honest and usually so accepting....love em

[Califanna]

I just love hearing from parents who have smart children. Kudos to you and your wife for bringing up two savvy children.

[Joed]

You're changing the world, russ1....ripples in a pond, ripples in a pond.

Thanks for sharing that story. I can see why it made you feel good...it makes me feel good!

[Airdna]

Children are so accepting of everything and everyone. They just see it how it is and accept it.

My two boys accepted my sci boyfriend without question. They loved the chair and kept nagging for a go all the time.

One time my then 8 year old son kept asking my very new boyfriend whilst we were out in the town shopping. "Can I have a go now? Can I have a go now?" To which my boyfriend said, but where do you want me to go? My son thought for a minute and very calmly said, "you can sit on the floor"!!

They are so sweet and innocent. They love to race him down and up hills, you can gues who wins which ones. Sometimes my boyfriend grabs on to my youngests coat hud and he runs through the shopping centre. So as you can see I have 3 children now not 2!!!

[Avocado Baby]

That's so sweet!

[hisamsmith]

My baby sister who is now 8 thought her friends were the weird ones because thier older sisters weren't in wheelchairs! I had to brake the news to her that we were the different ones when she was 6. She hugged me and said she'd rather have me than a "normal" sister anyday. Made me feel real great.

[cvelusc]

We live in an apartment building that has a family with two younger children, ages 5 and 8. I came home one day and the children were outside blowing bubbles. The boy's younger sister was ecstatic about how many bubbles her brother had blown, 8200 to be exact! I asked the boy how that was possible of him to blow so many bubbles and he responded that he "counted by 10s." Nicest children I've ever met, respectable, kind, and very smart.

Edited by cvelusc, 22 September 2006 - 07:16 PM.

[Lucydog]

My son, 2 and a half, is very interested in wheelchairs of course! he just calls my chair 'Wheels'. Its known as 'Ma wheels'. He thoughtfully reminds me to get my chair out the car when we go shopping. hes also keen on other wheelchair users and points them out to me shouting wheels a lot of the time. He doesnt stare like other kids, hes just interested, but in a different way if you know what I mean. not sure what other users make of him though!

[Tinbasher]

Lucydog, on Sep 22 2006, 09:33 PM, said:

My son, 2 and a half, is very interested in wheelchairs of course! he just calls my chair 'Wheels'. Its known as 'Ma wheels'. He thoughtfully reminds me to get my chair out the car when we go shopping. hes also keen on other wheelchair users and points them out to me shouting wheels a lot of the time. He doesnt stare like other kids, hes just interested, but in a different way if you know what I mean. not sure what other users make of him though!

My friends little boy calls my chair Tom's pram!

Tom