Earlier, while waiting for my orthotist, in between adjustment fittings & measuring for my right foot lift request. Goofing around with skeletal model hands & looking at the foot lift gauge blocks.
My left leg has been longer than my right leg since being struck & paralyzed by #polio in my toddler years. The illness stunted a lot of my physical growth. I wore very visible foot lifts from age 6-age 12. I stopped wearing them because kids physically bullied me & called me Frankenstein when I wore them. I stopped wearing them & spent the next 20 years of my life, trying to hide my disabilities. I stopped hiding my disabilities after getting therapy for a lot of childhood trauma issues that were directly tied to being bullied for being disabled & Asian as a young child.
#PeopleWithDisabilities #PostPolio #orthotics