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Recently, on a thrilling Friday night in an effort to avoid watching yet another episode of Scrubs, I ended up watching the ABC TV news magazine 20/20. This particular episode profiled the stories of three people dealing with unusual physical deformities: a college student born without legs, a black, television reporter, with a rare disease that is turning his skin white, and a young model born without a right ear. Each segment focused the various challenges and difficulties each person deals with on a daily basis in relation to their disability. For example, in the case of the TV reporter (surprisingly, an entertainment reporter for Fox 2 Detroit) he has the challenge of being a black man turning white, working in a visual media, while trying to come to grips with revealing his changing skin condition or to continue covering his face with concealing make up. I found the story of the guy born without legs to be the most interesting, both in terms of the challenges he continues to overcome and how his situation relates to my own.

Some observations:
In terms of maintaining positive body image, I'll take useless legs; but on the other hand, useless legs are dead weight. He makes a life without legs look easy, but he's lived with it his whole life. Fully functioning arms and hands are the key. I loved the picture of the dog staring at him as he went on his skateboard at the dog's eye level. The skateboard is sweet, but in  Montana in the dead of winter? Seems impractical. He must use his wheelchair way more often.

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A production note: 
Not to be a dick, but to the producers of 20/20, if you really want me to have some sympathy for the model having a prosthetic ear created so her portfolio can also contain shots of both the right and left side of her head, try running her segment before the one on the guy born without any friggin legs who travels the world by himself on a skateboard! Just a suggestion.

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