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.
That makes sense to me. Human variation is inherently interesting and I haven't necessarily seen people discussing this particular branch of it in detail. (I would not have assumed you were looking for tips! I am interested by the ways in which other people think, which doesn't mean I think there's something wrong with the way I do it.)
Thank you for the explanation. I wasn't sure if it was something you were comfortable talking about in the abstract but did not want to broadcast in medical detail to the open internet.
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.
That wraps around to the idea of what's normal for a person. If Elisha Cook Jr. holds a glass differently with his left hand than with his right and it is a comfortable and habitual movement for him, what I see is a guy holding a glass.
[edit] Crashing back into this thread because I was suddenly reminded while watching a completely different movie: if you are interested in studying how people move around disabilities, you may want to pay attention to Herbert Marshall, a romantic leading man of the 1930's who transitioned into character roles in the '40's and was missing a leg on account of World War I. He didn't hide it in the sense that it was occasionally mentioned in the press and he worked with injured and disabled veterans during World War II, but he played able-bodied characters and is seen in long shots, in motion, throughout his career. He was frequently cast as a gentleman, but could be equally convincing as a hot mess. (In Trouble in Paradise (1932), he's just hot.)
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That makes sense to me. Human variation is inherently interesting and I haven't necessarily seen people discussing this particular branch of it in detail. (I would not have assumed you were looking for tips! I am interested by the ways in which other people think, which doesn't mean I think there's something wrong with the way I do it.)
Thank you for the explanation. I wasn't sure if it was something you were comfortable talking about in the abstract but did not want to broadcast in medical detail to the open internet.
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.
That wraps around to the idea of what's normal for a person. If Elisha Cook Jr. holds a glass differently with his left hand than with his right and it is a comfortable and habitual movement for him, what I see is a guy holding a glass.
[edit] Crashing back into this thread because I was suddenly reminded while watching a completely different movie: if you are interested in studying how people move around disabilities, you may want to pay attention to Herbert Marshall, a romantic leading man of the 1930's who transitioned into character roles in the '40's and was missing a leg on account of World War I. He didn't hide it in the sense that it was occasionally mentioned in the press and he worked with injured and disabled veterans during World War II, but he played able-bodied characters and is seen in long shots, in motion, throughout his career. He was frequently cast as a gentleman, but could be equally convincing as a hot mess. (In Trouble in Paradise (1932), he's just hot.)