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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. List of amputees in film - Wikipedia

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    Trilateral (left arm and both legs) Trauma (insect) Captain Hook: Peter Pan: Left hand Trauma (knife) Cherry Darling Planet Terror: Right above-knee Mutilation (zombies) Lady Eboshi Princess Mononoke: Right arm Trauma (wolf) Harold Pointer Intent Unknown: Bilateral below-knee Trauma (gun shot) Will Sawyer Skyscraper: Left below-knee Trauma (bomb)

  4. Paraplegic bride walks down the aisle, shares moment on ... - AOL

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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.

  5. 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.

  6. Fragile (film) - Wikipedia

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    Charlotte begins to appear in front of a metal door shown as a grey tall figure with braces on her legs. Maggie saves Amy, dropping her favorite blanket, "Mr. Sleepy" in the process. Amy and Dr. Robert view the film and Robert explains the disease Charlotte suffered from was a sickness that causes the patient's bones to be susceptible to fractures.

  7. 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 ...

  8. 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.

  9. Prosthetics in fiction - Wikipedia

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    In the myriad of Peter Pan stories and franchises, Captain Hook has a hook replacing his right hand which was eaten by a crocodile. In Flannery O'Connor's story "Good Country People", the character Joy Hopewell/Hulga's leg was blasted off in a childhood hunting accidents and she uses a wooden leg instead that becomes important to the plot.