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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. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Paraplegic bride walks down the aisle, shares moment on 'Say ...

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    On September 20th, Katie walked down the aisle in two leg braces flanked on either side by her father and her trainer Mike Barwis. Katie told Today that she was more nervous than she expected.

  6. 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 ...

  7. 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]

  8. List of polio survivors - Wikipedia

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    After five years of massage and exercises, she managed to walk again without leg braces. She became a basketball star, and led her team to a state championship. Rudolph won a bronze medal, aged 16, at the 1956 Summer Olympics and three gold medals (100-meter, 200-meter, and 4 x 100-meter relay) in the 1960 Summer Olympics , setting two world ...

  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.