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Thread: Just finished this beautiful book in which the protagonist is a strong, powerful woman with #dwarfism - Trudi - living in Germany before, through, and after WW2.
This is the first piece of adult non-fantasy fiction I've read with a #dwarf main character.
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This is the first piece of adult non-fantasy fiction I've read with a #dwarf main character.
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A dwarf person in an average height town, Trudi is, in a way, an outsider, and yet central to the community, too.
As a child, she yearns to be average height - she asks the doctor for pills to make her tall, she hangs by her arms from doorways trying to stretch her body.
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As a child, she yearns to be average height - she asks the doctor for pills to make her tall, she hangs by her arms from doorways trying to stretch her body.
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Children shy away from Trudi as if touching her might turn them into #dwarf people, too.
Adults act as if she is invisible and they say things they wouldn't say if other children were around. For Trudi, this is the beginning of something key...
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Adults act as if she is invisible and they say things they wouldn't say if other children were around. For Trudi, this is the beginning of something key...
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"DADDY! LOOK AT THAT SMALL MA..."
Thread: Some advice for parents when your small child sees someone with #dwarfism for the first time.
Please read, RT, and, if you yourself are a #dwarf or #disabled person,add your own advice.
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Thread: Some advice for parents when your small child sees someone with #dwarfism for the first time.
Please read, RT, and, if you yourself are a #dwarf or #disabled person,add your own advice.
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"MUMMY! THAT BOY HAS A *BEARD*!?!"
I can imagine you feel embarrassed right now…
...but what you do next helps set the foundations on which your child will build their understanding of #dwarfism, #disability, and difference.
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I can imagine you feel embarrassed right now…
...but what you do next helps set the foundations on which your child will build their understanding of #dwarfism, #disability, and difference.
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The first thing to say is: don't ever encourage your child to point and laugh at people who are different. Ever.
That might seem obvious, but I've encountered parents who’ve done so - and even filmed me, too.
But these are a tiny minority, so let's move on...
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That might seem obvious, but I've encountered parents who’ve done so - and even filmed me, too.
But these are a tiny minority, so let's move on...
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Thread: I have #dwarfism.
I knew who the Seven #Dwarfs were by the age of ten.
I knew who Mini Me was by 13.
I was 31 when I learned who Benjamin Lay was.
This is important. Please read and RT.
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I knew who the Seven #Dwarfs were by the age of ten.
I knew who Mini Me was by 13.
I was 31 when I learned who Benjamin Lay was.
This is important. Please read and RT.
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Born in England 1682, Benjamin Lay was among the first known radical abolitionists.
He was fearless, compassionate, and principled.
He was also a #dwarf.
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He was fearless, compassionate, and principled.
He was also a #dwarf.
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A "living stick of dynamite", Benjamin Lay was "one of the very first to call for the abolition of slavery".
He wrote one of the world's first abolitionist books - calling for the church to cast out slave owners.
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He wrote one of the world's first abolitionist books - calling for the church to cast out slave owners.
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Thread: following my tweet about the word "M*dget", lots of people are asking "but what do we call people with #dwarfism?". Listen close...
Please RT 1/
Please RT 1/
I promise you: the best thing to call someone with #dwarfism is *their name*.
If you don't know their name, ask yourself why you need to refer to their body before knowing who they are. This is important. 2/
If you don't know their name, ask yourself why you need to refer to their body before knowing who they are. This is important. 2/
3/ Know their name? Good. Then politely ask them how they like to refer to themselves.
It's for them to decide, not you. They are the author of the dictionary that defines them*
Don't know their name? See 2/.
(* I stole this from Zadie Smith)
It's for them to decide, not you. They are the author of the dictionary that defines them*
Don't know their name? See 2/.
(* I stole this from Zadie Smith)
