What the heck? I didn't read the whole thread and maybe this was answered already, but where can I get that car??!!
This may be politically incorrect to say, but I've had a few major moves in my life, and along the way I've had several friends and acquaintences who were physically challenged in some way, ranging from minor to major. Each one of them, to a person, said that humour and being treated the same way as everyone else was one of the things that made them feel like they belonged, that they weren't any different than anyone else. But what they meant about being treated the same way as everyone else was not what you might think. One of my buddies back in Kitchener many years ago, said to me once, and I'm paraphrasing, "so long as you tippy toe around me out of respect for my blindness, I'll always feel different. When you treat me like one of the guys, make fun of me, poke fun at my blindness and shortcomings and faults once in a while like all guys do when they are hanging out, then I feel like I belong. I know I'll really belong when you no longer avoid talking about my handicap, but are comfortable enough to make a few jokes about it"
That was many years ago, but anyone I've run across with any kind of physical challenge has basically felt the same way, once you got to know them a little. Sure there's a time and a place for it, like everything else, but it's when we carry our abilities and disabilities around like some kind of cross to bear and can't laugh at ourselves and others, that these disabilities really become a handicap.
Then i think a Midget can too.
