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“Hardcore Sitting”
Aaron Fotheringham (“Wheels”) is, officially at least, the only wheelchair-bound person to be able to do a backflip. (Via liburd, and Telegraph.co.uk.)
“When other kids in wheelchairs see me doing what I do, I’d just like to be able to inspire them to, either, just go off a curb, or jump a stair set, or just get out of the house, because those video games are death.”
If you’re not going to go jump off something, at least get out of the house. Awesome.
Via How Shy Became Sick | Chicago Reader »
On how misanthropy and shyness became official disorders, with drugs to cure them:
‘Lane tells me the process, which was supposed to establish psychiatry as a solid science, was itself “highly unscientific.” The task force spun out one new disorder after another, sometimes “knocking out the list of symptoms in a matter of minutes… . Almost overnight, shyness and many other routine moods and ailments became bona fide disorders.” ‘
Interesting.
