Yes, I agree about "natural for them" - that's true also!
If you don't mind my asking, is your minor physical disability something that other people do notice, or just something you're mindful of working around?
I don't mind saying what it is. I have a rare bone disorder, fibrous dysplasia, which means that some of my bones (in my case the entire left femur and part of my hip; it can affect any part of the body, but my presentation is among the most common) produce something that isn't bone, but more of a matrix of scar-like tissue and bone that can't support body weight. As a child and teenager, when my body was still growing, it was considerably disabling and I couldn't walk without aids like braces and crutches, but as an adult, that femur and hip are stabilized with metal rods and it's barely noticeable most of the time. However, my left leg is about 3/4" shorter than my other leg and suffers frequent bone fractures when I move suddenly. So I limp. But people typically don't notice until they do, and someone says, "Did you hurt your ankle?" or something of that nature. (Not a bad question! Perfectly natural! I don't mind explaining.) I think the motion of the rest of my body carries it unless I'm especially tired or in pain, in which case my limp, which I expect is always present because of the discrepancy between my leg lengths, and which I can feel when I move, suddenly becomes too noticeable to ignore.
But that's why I'm fascinated by other people's moving-around-a-physical-disability embodiment. I know that I'm doing it but I'm completely incapable of seeing *how* I'm doing it unless I really focus on, for example, the way I stand with my body as straight as it gets and one heel barely resting on the floor; it's just entirely natural to how I move. I am interested in other people's ways of moving around that kind of thing not because they might work for me (I'm completely happy with mine; I have no complaints) but because I find the diversity of bodies doing what needs doing, around a wide variety of physical variations, incredibly interesting. For most people it is, genuinely, not so much hiding it as simply learning how to act around it, which frequently constitutes hiding it because most people only see the result and not the actions that produce it, and I find this interesting both conceptually and physically.
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If you don't mind my asking, is your minor physical disability something that other people do notice, or just something you're mindful of working around?
I don't mind saying what it is. I have a rare bone disorder, fibrous dysplasia, which means that some of my bones (in my case the entire left femur and part of my hip; it can affect any part of the body, but my presentation is among the most common) produce something that isn't bone, but more of a matrix of scar-like tissue and bone that can't support body weight. As a child and teenager, when my body was still growing, it was considerably disabling and I couldn't walk without aids like braces and crutches, but as an adult, that femur and hip are stabilized with metal rods and it's barely noticeable most of the time. However, my left leg is about 3/4" shorter than my other leg and suffers frequent bone fractures when I move suddenly. So I limp. But people typically don't notice until they do, and someone says, "Did you hurt your ankle?" or something of that nature. (Not a bad question! Perfectly natural! I don't mind explaining.) I think the motion of the rest of my body carries it unless I'm especially tired or in pain, in which case my limp, which I expect is always present because of the discrepancy between my leg lengths, and which I can feel when I move, suddenly becomes too noticeable to ignore.
But that's why I'm fascinated by other people's moving-around-a-physical-disability embodiment. I know that I'm doing it but I'm completely incapable of seeing *how* I'm doing it unless I really focus on, for example, the way I stand with my body as straight as it gets and one heel barely resting on the floor; it's just entirely natural to how I move. I am interested in other people's ways of moving around that kind of thing not because they might work for me (I'm completely happy with mine; I have no complaints) but because I find the diversity of bodies doing what needs doing, around a wide variety of physical variations, incredibly interesting. For most people it is, genuinely, not so much hiding it as simply learning how to act around it, which frequently constitutes hiding it because most people only see the result and not the actions that produce it, and I find this interesting both conceptually and physically.