--- - Joy - <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I'm
> almost 17, with spastic diplegia CP.  I use a manual
> wheelchair.  I have no
> speech and spasticity issues, only a slight startle
> reflex.

Hello Joy, - Is the "startle" thing a propper medical
condition / term ??

I do get startled quite easily (not too easily)...
- Ive sort of conditionewd myself to not get startled
with car-horns etc (though sometimes I do get
startled)

If I see an ambulance / fire-truck anywhere close - I
usually stop walking, & prepare myself in case they
fire-off their horn & lights..

- even if i know their there, it SOMETIMES startles
me.


> I'd like to
> talk to someone (if possible) about wheelchair
> techniques and dating issues.

Hmm - Im not (yet) in a wheelchair - still walking,
but i do want to talk about dating - Im not going on
any :-)

Gordy.


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