Re: Perfect DW and LP comment and cute kid story

[Guest guest]

Alyce:

When my niece was about 5 years old she asked my sister " when is Aunt Marty

going to grow up " as though I was absent-minded and just hadn't gotten around

to it yet! ;-)

-marty (the lady one)

>>> afwtexas@... 03/28/06 9:57 AM >>>

Bill said:

I think the most perfect dwarf women is....

All of them!!! (How's that for hedging my bets?)

Smart man! And I'm so relieved I don't have to do the drinking contest. One

drink and I'm asleep.

I have no problem with the term LITTLE PEOPLE (Sorry, Marty) because it

contains the word PEOPLE, and sometimes the world needs to be reminded that we

fall into that category.

Dwarf is fine; person with dwarfism is fine.

In my opinion, although the " M " word is sometimes used innocently by those

those who don't know better (and who drop it when told), it is also the word of

choice by those who have no manners and/or don't care if they hurt anyone. I

don't mean children, whom I always give the benefit of the doubt. I mean

adults, as in those who have followed me around in public places, saying loudly,

" Look at the M-----! " No, I don't go home and cry myself to sleep about it,

having lived long enough to know that someone that insensitive has a much bigger

problem than I do. But rude is still rude.

Finally, here's a cute kid story:

Hannah, a six-year-old at my church, came up to me recently and demanded,

" Miss Alyce, when are you going to grow up?! " At her age, it was easy to

explain that some people have green eyes, some people have blue eyes, some are

short, some are tall, etc. But the following week she returned just to make

sure and said, " So you'll stay short, right? " Her mom told me she had seen LPBW

and was putting it all together.

Alyce :-)

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[Guest guest]

I have a cute kid story to share too...my nephew (who is 3 1/2) and

I were in Wal Mart a couple months ago and this little boy who was

probably around the age of 7 came up to me and pointed, laughed, and

said hey you're not a real woman (or something along those lines).

my nephew turns to him and yells " hey be nice to my minya leave her

alone " and was making fists to this kid who was towering over him.

it was sooo cute.

[Guest guest]

Hello,

Kids are forever asking their mom " Is she a mommy? " I usually have my 3yr old

son with me, then they will stare and finally ask me " Are you his mommy? " When I

tell them yes they usually just smile and go on or they will turn back to their

parents and say WHY? is she small??

I'm trying to educate my son now so he will understand that things like that

will happen alot and he needs to be ready to deal with it.

Char

aleonard_85 <aleonard_85@...> wrote:

I have a cute kid story to share too...my nephew (who is 3 1/2) and

I were in Wal Mart a couple months ago and this little boy who was

probably around the age of 7 came up to me and pointed, laughed, and

said hey you're not a real woman (or something along those lines).

my nephew turns to him and yells " hey be nice to my minya leave her

alone " and was making fists to this kid who was towering over him.

it was sooo cute.

===

[Guest guest]

Many years ago my father and I were waiting for my mother to finishing

paying for my sneakers at the store.

There was this adorable girl walking out holding her daddy's hand. She

had to have been around 2 or 3 years old.

She pulled her thumb out of her mouth as she saw my father and she

goes " Look Daddy! A Baby Man! "

It was so cute. Her father was embarrassed, but saw that my dad was

not. The little girl's father was put at ease by my father's gentle

reaction. He thought it was cute too and started laughing.

For those who do not know, My father and I both have dwarfism.

a

>

> I have a cute kid story to share too...my nephew (who is 3 1/2) and

> I were in Wal Mart a couple months ago and this little boy who was

> probably around the age of 7 came up to me and pointed, laughed, and

> said hey you're not a real woman (or something along those lines).

> my nephew turns to him and yells " hey be nice to my minya leave her

> alone " and was making fists to this kid who was towering over him.

> it was sooo cute.

>

[Guest guest]

Unfortunately out there, AP's tend to ASSUME we all must look alike

too, which is totally absurd, but they DO. For many years, and in a LARGE

city too, I was constantly getting bombarded by many groups of AP's

insisting I was this other LP lady! When they FINALLY would realize I wasn't,

they

said this LP lady and I looked EXACTLY ALIKE, and they were SO totally

blown away about this!

Years later, this lady and I happened to FINALLY actually run right

smack into each other, and got to compare " notes " on the matter! She

too was getting bombarded through the years, only by MY many friends

claiming she HAD to be ME!

The thing of it was though, WE LOOKED NOTHING ALIKE AT ALL,

nor did we even talk alike!!! We were SO completely different looking in

EVERY way, that it boggled our minds all our friends could even make

such a blunder to begin with! We thought it was just hilarious!

What about the rest of you? Are any of you forever being mistaken for

another LP in your area, who looks NOTHING like you?!!

Oh, and then there is THIS too-------you are seen with car keys in

hand,

opening your car door, no one else with you, and you get, " Wow, do YOU

REALLY DRIVE?!!

DUH.

No. I staked out a frail little old lady who I am stealing this car

from, and I

then followed her into the john, flushed her down the toilet, and somehow,

IF I am lucky, I will find a zillion phone books to sit on, just so I can

drive it off

now, thank you.

Oh, and yes!!! What about the ones who when they converse with us,

TALK VERY LOUDLY AND ENUNCIATE THEIR WORDS, as IF due to our

shortness, we: (a) our shortness makes us deaf, or ( our shortness makes

us dumb, or © our shortness means WE should be talked to like they talk to

a baby, for crying out loud?!!!

I am always then tempted to say something like, " Goo goo gaa gaa, do I

REALLY look like I am a BABY?!!

AUGH!!!

But I don't, because I first know I have MY pride, and, as has been

even

been touched upon in here recently, I also KNOW, that what I say, how I act,

not ONLY represents how I appear to THEM, but represents us ALL. So if I

can respond in a positive warm way, which isn't always easy, believe me,

THEY will hopefully be very impressed and pass this along, and if we

ALL do this, slowly, very VERY SLOWLY, maybe we may even make a positive

difference out there someday, where we are NOT any longer being invaded by

ignorance, nastiness, and disrespect.

Adelaide

In a message dated 3/30/06 11:31:38 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,

quartznh@... writes:

But my father has dwarfism and I have been asked if he is my

husband...considering he's my father, 72 years old and I'm 25,

YUCK!!!! EWWW!!! Seriously, I look too much like him and he

obviously looks much older than me...what are people thinking??

[Guest guest]

Well not only the kids ask you question. The adults ask you too, they

be asking you how do you have sex? Can you have kids too? Can you

have sex like AP? I just trun my head and keep on walking.

When I'm with my boyfriend they be asking me are you her father? My

boyfriend just look at them like they are crazy.

> I have a cute kid story to share too...my nephew (who is 3 1/2)

and

> I were in Wal Mart a couple months ago and this little boy who was

> probably around the age of 7 came up to me and pointed, laughed,

and

> said hey you're not a real woman (or something along those lines).

> my nephew turns to him and yells " hey be nice to my minya leave her

> alone " and was making fists to this kid who was towering over him.

> it was sooo cute.

>

>

>

>

> ===

>

[Guest guest]

" Well not only the kids ask you question. The adults

ask you too, they be asking you how do you have sex?

Can you have kids too? Can you have sex like AP? I

just trun my head and keep on walking.

When I'm with my boyfriend they be asking me are you

her father? My boyfriend just look at them like they

are crazy. "

*****

Suggestion, find another place to go or other people

to hang out with. In all my days, strangers have

never said such things to me (and I used to sing in a

rock band, and have been in some severe dive bars)...

Kage

__________________________________________________

[Guest guest]

These types of questions I have never been asked. My husband has

never been asked these types of questions either...Fortunatly for

them, they have never asked him these questions directly!

But my father has dwarfism and I have been asked if he is my

husband...considering he's my father, 72 years old and I'm 25,

YUCK!!!! EWWW!!! Seriously, I look too much like him and he

obviously looks much older than me...what are people thinking??

But the most frequently asked question I receive from adults

is: " What is the appropriate word to use when talking about someone

like you? " (of course people ask this in other ways too.)

My response: " the person's name " (but I do take the opportunity to

educate them)

a

> > I have a cute kid story to share too...my nephew (who is 3

1/2)

> and

> > I were in Wal Mart a couple months ago and this little boy who

was

> > probably around the age of 7 came up to me and pointed, laughed,

> and

> > said hey you're not a real woman (or something along those

lines).

> > my nephew turns to him and yells " hey be nice to my minya leave

her

> > alone " and was making fists to this kid who was towering over

him.

> > it was sooo cute.

> >

> >

> >

> >

> > ===

> >

[Guest guest]

Well you know how these peoples are on the streets. They don't know

what the hect they are taking about.

> > > I have a cute kid story to share too...my nephew (who is 3

> 1/2)

> > and

> > > I were in Wal Mart a couple months ago and this little boy who

> was

> > > probably around the age of 7 came up to me and pointed,

laughed,

> > and

> > > said hey you're not a real woman (or something along those

> lines).

> > > my nephew turns to him and yells " hey be nice to my minya leave

> her

> > > alone " and was making fists to this kid who was towering over

> him.

> > > it was sooo cute.

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > ===

> > >

[Guest guest]

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U smiled.... U are a much nicer person than i am.... We would be fighting. Thats

just disrepectful and unnecessary. Once you reach that age where you are

accountable for your actions the whole im innocent cuz' im ignorant thing goes

out the window. If your curious i understand. Im a curious person myself... If

your just going to show off and make a anus of yaself... I got a remedy for that

too..

aleonard_85 <aleonard_85@...> wrote: omg i know! why is it that a lot of

people think sex is somehow different for lps?

[Guest guest]

Sorry, Bill, I've got a mistaken identity story to beat them all.

I was in my last semester at Gallaudet University. I was rushing through the

student union building when a woman stopped me and said she knew me. I said I

didn't think so but she was insistent. Finally she signed, " Your name is

, right? " ASL is not my first language and I still get nervous with

fingerspelling so I thought I must have misread her. I asked her again to spell

it.

Again she signed " Your name is . " I just looked at her and said " I'm not

. I'm a woman! " She looked at me and said " Are you sure? " She was deadly

serious.

Rose

In a message dated 3/30/2006 8:40:38 PM Eastern Standard Time,

tslug1@... writes:

When I lived in the Seattle area, people often asked me if I was Ted

Spencer. Anyone who knows me and knows Ted knows we look nothing alike.

I'm 3'9 " and he's about 4'9 " , I'm DD and he's got Silver Syndrom.

Also, he's in his 50s, with a full head of white hair, and I'm in my 40s,

with brown hair (and a receding hair line). Other than that, yeah we look

just alike.

A funny story about my stepdaughter: She is also an LP, but very petite

(pseudo). In high school, she got a job working at Old Navy. One day, a

lady comes in with her daughter (who was about 5) and when they saw my

daughter standing on a stool at the checkout counter, the little girls

shouts at the top of her lungs " look mommy, that little girl has BOOBS! "

Needless to say, the whole store heard it and turned to look. Fortunately

my daughter has a good sense of humor.

-Bill

[Guest guest]

When I lived in the Seattle area, people often asked me if I was Ted

Spencer. Anyone who knows me and knows Ted knows we look nothing alike.

I'm 3'9 " and he's about 4'9 " , I'm DD and he's got Silver Syndrom.

Also, he's in his 50s, with a full head of white hair, and I'm in my 40s,

with brown hair (and a receding hair line). Other than that, yeah we look

just alike.

A funny story about my stepdaughter: She is also an LP, but very petite

(pseudo). In high school, she got a job working at Old Navy. One day, a

lady comes in with her daughter (who was about 5) and when they saw my

daughter standing on a stool at the checkout counter, the little girls

shouts at the top of her lungs " look mommy, that little girl has BOOBS! "

Needless to say, the whole store heard it and turned to look. Fortunately

my daughter has a good sense of humor.

-Bill

On 3/30/06, BASHUM7894@... <BASHUM7894@...> wrote:

>

>

> Unfortunately out there, AP's tend to ASSUME we all must look alike

> too, which is totally absurd, but they DO. For many years, and in

> a LARGE

> city too, I was constantly getting bombarded by many groups of AP's

> insisting I was this other LP lady! When they FINALLY would realize

> I wasn't, they

> said this LP lady and I looked EXACTLY ALIKE, and they were SO totally

> blown away about this!

> Years later, this lady and I happened to FINALLY actually run

> right

> smack into each other, and got to compare " notes " on the matter! She

> too was getting bombarded through the years, only by MY many friends

> claiming she HAD to be ME!

> The thing of it was though, WE LOOKED NOTHING ALIKE AT ALL,

> nor did we even talk alike!!! We were SO completely different looking in

> EVERY way, that it boggled our minds all our friends could even make

> such a blunder to begin with! We thought it was just hilarious!

> What about the rest of you? Are any of you forever being mistaken

> for

> another LP in your area, who looks NOTHING like you?!!

> Oh, and then there is THIS too-------you are seen with car keys in

> hand,

> opening your car door, no one else with you, and you get, " Wow, do YOU

> REALLY DRIVE?!!

> DUH.

> No. I staked out a frail little old lady who I am stealing this

> car

> from, and I

> then followed her into the john, flushed her down the toilet,

> and somehow,

> IF I am lucky, I will find a zillion phone books to sit on, just so I can

> drive it off

> now, thank you.

> Oh, and yes!!! What about the ones who when they converse with us,

> TALK VERY LOUDLY AND ENUNCIATE THEIR WORDS, as IF due to our

> shortness, we: (a) our shortness makes us deaf, or ( our shortness

> makes

> us dumb, or © our shortness means WE should be talked to like they talk

> to

> a baby, for crying out loud?!!!

> I am always then tempted to say something like, " Goo goo gaa gaa,

> do I

> REALLY look like I am a BABY?!!

> AUGH!!!

> But I don't, because I first know I have MY pride, and, as has been

> even

> been touched upon in here recently, I also KNOW, that what I say, how

> I act,

> not ONLY represents how I appear to THEM, but represents us ALL. So if I

> can respond in a positive warm way, which isn't always easy, believe me,

> THEY will hopefully be very impressed and pass this along, and if we

> ALL do this, slowly, very VERY SLOWLY, maybe we may even make a positive

> difference out there someday, where we are NOT any longer being invaded by

> ignorance, nastiness, and disrespect.

>

> Adelaide

> In a message dated 3/30/06 11:31:38 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,

> quartznh@... writes:

>

> But my father has dwarfism and I have been asked if he is my

> husband...considering he's my father, 72 years old and I'm 25,

> YUCK!!!! EWWW!!! Seriously, I look too much like him and he

> obviously looks much older than me...what are people thinking??

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

I thought was your name in Drag?

Ames

Re: Re: Perfect DW and LP comment and cute kid story

>

> Sorry, Bill, I've got a mistaken identity story to beat them all.

>

> I was in my last semester at Gallaudet University. I was rushing through

> the

> student union building when a woman stopped me and said she knew me. I

> said I

> didn't think so but she was insistent. Finally she signed, " Your name is

> , right? " ASL is not my first language and I still get nervous with

> fingerspelling so I thought I must have misread her. I asked her again to

> spell it.

> Again she signed " Your name is . " I just looked at her and said " I'm

> not

> . I'm a woman! " She looked at me and said " Are you sure? " She was

> deadly

> serious.

>

> Rose

>

> In a message dated 3/30/2006 8:40:38 PM Eastern Standard Time,

> tslug1@... writes:

>

> When I lived in the Seattle area, people often asked me if I was Ted

> Spencer. Anyone who knows me and knows Ted knows we look nothing alike.

> I'm 3'9 " and he's about 4'9 " , I'm DD and he's got Silver Syndrom.

> Also, he's in his 50s, with a full head of white hair, and I'm in my 40s,

> with brown hair (and a receding hair line). Other than that, yeah we look

> just alike.

>

> A funny story about my stepdaughter: She is also an LP, but very petite

> (pseudo). In high school, she got a job working at Old Navy. One day, a

> lady comes in with her daughter (who was about 5) and when they saw my

> daughter standing on a stool at the checkout counter, the little girls

> shouts at the top of her lungs " look mommy, that little girl has BOOBS! "

> Needless to say, the whole store heard it and turned to look. Fortunately

> my daughter has a good sense of humor.

>

> -Bill

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Those are the moments when you realize adults lack common sense and in

honor of that smart little girl at the store, you should have showed

her your 'boobs'.

> Sorry, Bill, I've got a mistaken identity story to beat them all.

>

> I was in my last semester at Gallaudet University. I was rushing

through student union building when a woman stopped me and said she

knew me. I said didn't think so but she was insistent. Finally she

signed, " Your name is , right? " ASL is not my first language and

I still get nervous with fingerspelling so I thought I must have

misread her. I asked her again to spell it. Again she signed " Your

name is . " I just looked at her and said " I'm not . I'm a

woman! " She looked at me and said " Are you sure? " She was deadly

> serious.

[Guest guest]

I agree with you..i know how hard it is to be called names and made

fun of and its not worth getting upset...people are cruel and you must

always try to look for the good in some..i think you are amazing;)---

In dwarfism , Kimmel <ruffyk2@...> wrote:

>

> I totally agree with you on the sex part!

>

> As for kids, I wish i had kept a running list of all the things

people have said to me though out my life. Some of them are just funny

and others are just weird. It's only now that I'm older that i think

this way. It just to bum me out when i was little. But now i just like

to see how many different things people can say. Once at the airport

this little girl was like " is she a girl? " that was the most random

one i have EVER had. I just looked at my mom and was like... that's a

new one for the books!

>

>

>