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  2. 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.

  3. 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 ...

  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. Amy Palmiero-Winters - Wikipedia

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    Amy Palmiero-Winters (born August 18, 1972) is a below-knee amputee, long-distance runner, and triathlete. She holds eleven world records in various events. In 2010, she was awarded the James E. Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the United States and the ESPN ESPY Award as the top female athlete with a disability in the world.

  6. 100 Years of Reader’s Digest: People, Stories, Laughter - AOL

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    Come celebrate Reader's Digest's 100th anniversary with a century of funny jokes, moving quotes, heartwarming stories, and riveting dramas. The post 100 Years of Reader’s Digest: People, Stories ...

  7. 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.

  8. Category:Fictional amputees - Wikipedia

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    B. B. D. (Doonesbury) Baba Yaga (Hellboy) Baiken; Baltimore (comics) Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire; Myrcella Baratheon; Hector Barbossa

  9. Rose Siggins - Wikipedia

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    Siggins was born with sacral agenesis, and because of this, as she recalled, "my legs were severely deformed, with the feet pointing in opposite directions." [2] Her parents decided to have her legs amputated. [2] According to herself, she was the only person with sacral agenesis to have carried and given birth to a baby who was not disabled. [2]