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  2. Disability pretender - Wikipedia

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    This form of pretending (where a devotee derives pleasure by pretending to be a disabled woman) may indicate a very broad predisposition to pretending among devotees. Pretending includes dressing and acting in ways typical of disabled people, including making use of aids ( glasses , hearing aids , braces , canes , inhalers , walking sticks ...

  3. Attraction to disability - Wikipedia

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    American Horror Story: Freak Show features Elsa Mars (Jessica Lange), a German woman who had her legs amputated in an acrotomophilic film while working as a prostitute in Weimar Germany. Katawa Shoujo, a visual novel based on dating disabled girls. Dexter, a TV show in which a serial killer prosthetist is attracted to amputation.

  4. Abasiophilia - Wikipedia

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    Abasiophilia is a psychosexual attraction to people with impaired mobility, especially those who use orthopaedic appliances such as leg braces, orthopedic casts, or wheelchairs. [1] The term abasiophilia was first used by John Money of the Johns Hopkins University in a paper on paraphilias , in 1990.

  5. Police pool money to replace leg braces stolen from boy with ...

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    KTLA -- Police were searching Wednesday for the thief who broke into a woman's car and stole the orthopedic leg braces belonging to her 9-year-old son who suffers from cerebral palsy. The break-in ...

  6. Jane Froman - Wikipedia

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    She wore a leg brace and used a wheelchair after having had 13 operations for her injuries. [17] She underwent 39 operations over the years and fought amputation and wore a leg brace the remainder of her life. Froman returned to Europe and entertained American troops in 1945. Despite having to walk with crutches, she gave 95 shows throughout ...

  7. Photo of woman crossing her legs on a subway is baffling the ...

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    For some people it's hard enough to just sit comfortable with one leg over the other -- and men especially. After Imgur user SickOfFeelingNumb posted the photo , hundreds of people began commenting.

  8. Body integrity dysphoria - Wikipedia

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    Body integrity dysphoria (BID), also referred to as body integrity identity disorder (BIID), amputee identity disorder or xenomelia, and formerly called apotemnophilia, is a rare mental disorder characterized by a desire to have a sensory or physical disability or feeling discomfort with being able-bodied, beginning in early adolescence and resulting in harmful consequences. [1]

  9. Driver who was trapped for days in a mangled vehicle before ...

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    A driver who was stuck for days in a mangled car in Indiana before a man and his father-in-law found him had to have his leg amputated Wednesday.