What would they be?

(Serious questions. I need to use these. Make your funny ones 6-10 or whatever)

How do you pee?
What is the hardest daily task for you to do?
What's your favorite type of food?
What part of Duluth do you live in?
Do you like long walks on the be......opps

Lets establish first why I would be talking to a cripplied midget.

Because... Kirby is a crippled midget. :downs:

Why is "midget" so often considered derogatory, and why is "little people" any better? Is there a legitimate claim behind the desire to drop the term or is it just attention whoring?

How do you kiss a tall person? If your girlfriend isn't a midget, do you sit in her lap?

Is it creepy or weird?

Do you get thought of as a teddy bear in that situation?

Do you not like being thought of as a teddy bear?

Do you think you could take Eric Cartman in a fight?

This will be answered with a video eventually. It seems to be the #1 question.


Depends on the day, but usually comes down to whiping or possibly changing out of swim trunks.


How is this related? Probably Zaru Soba. Possibly Poppers. Maybe spicy chicken wings. mmmm.


God damned stalker. I live on the hillside, near Coppertop.



:-(


That's the EXACT reason I'm doing what I'm going to be doing. I am very much against PC, and I think it's what CAUSES the gap between people with disabilities and people without. Hell, I think it IS the gap. If you leave your house thinking you have a right to not be offended, you're in for a suprise.


We do it in all kinds of ways. Sometimes she sits on the floor and I sit in a chair so I seem bigger. Other times we just lie together. She's very flexible. I don't often sit on her lap because she's too tiny.


You get over it.


Not really. I couldn't date someone if they did. Ew.


Not at all.

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Please ask more general questions that aren't SO specific to an individual. Feel free to ask them, but I need a handful of good "Do midgets..." Some people might answere some of these questions entirely different, and be as diverse as anyone else answering them.

Also, I'll tell you more about this project as it takes off. IF it takes off. I need your ideas!

Do you mind people asking if you need help?
What is worse: being ignored or being stared at?

I only have two questions. I fail.

Was it ever your dream to star as R2-D2?

If I remember correctly, you can walk, but you have a powered chair. What's your limits on walking/moving in general?

In addition: how the hell do you manage stairs, especially at places that don't have elevators or ramps?

Do you/Can you drive? How does that work?

Do you ever get depressed or angry due to the circumstances you have been dealt?

EWOKS

I have one question for midgets:

Why do they care?

Hasn't anyone heard of Dwarf Priest? They can cast Fear Ward, the most awesomist ability ever.

(I do realize what people consider differences in dwarfs and midgets, and have intentionally used them interchangeably)

EDIT: I just thought of a few more questions.

Would you make a dwarf character in a video game?
Do you like Gimli?
Do you know who Shim is?

Jesus no.

ok, first Id like to say that Im glad someone like Kirby is doing this. Everyone has questions about minority groups and its always difficult to ask since you dont want to offend. Im an average white male aged between 25-30 (27 actually) with slightly above average income so no one ever has questions about people like me.

If anyone were to call you a dwarf or gnome, would you get offended?

When playing wow (which I know you have in the past), you were ever tempted to play a gnome or dwarf?

What do you find more annoying - people who stare at you and/or making mean comments or people who try to be overly helpful and kind because of the condition you're in?

I agree that this is cool of Kirby as well. Any time a respectful, sincere open forum can be had is a good thing. So, here's my 5:

* Do you have to custom-order clothes or do you just shop the kids section?

* Do a lot of midgets go to midget conventions?

* Do midgets usually end up in certain types of jobs due to their physical characteristics, or is it as varied as each individual's personality?

* Do a great amount of midgets try to become actors?

* Do you feel a midget going into the acting business because of their physical uniqueness gives them an edge/niche, or is it an exploitation/mockery of the condition?

Hmm...you should ask some of these questions to Stephen Hawking.

1) Do you feel you have advantages as a crippled/midget that other people may not?

2) What's at least one thing you wish people would/wouldn't do or say that's specific to you being a crippled/midget?

3) If you could wish it true, what would be your ideal physical attributes for yourself (assuming you wish you WERE different, of course -- example being that a lot of people wish they were taller as one of their things)? Related question - what physical trait do you most envy?

4) Previous to this inquiry just now, what did you feel people were most ignorant about being a crippled/midget?

5) Do you think you have any role-models or something similar that inspired you (in relation to the context of questions at hand here)?

If there were 3 ways to get into a room: a ladder/chiminey/rope combination, a second story window, or a chainsaw used on the locked basement door, which would you attempt first?

If a tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound?

Do you have a custom bar set up for pull-ups?

What's your fastest mile time running?

Do you exercise regularly, and if so, what is your routine.

IF they ask for help, I don't mind. A lot of people don't, and they just make my life harder by trying really hard to help. It's often better for me to struggle and do something the way you want or need it done, than to have someone butt in and think they know what's best.


By FAR being ignored.


Currently I'm having more and more difficulty walking due to a recent diagnosis of arthritus. When I was in 4th or 5th grade, I could walk very easily. Every time I got a surgery though, I'd have to relearn how to walk. I used a walker for the longest time. Now I can use only a walker, and I'm a LOT slower.


Climb, or be carried. I'm only 90 pounds, and my upper body strength is pretty fantastic, so I can use that most of the times.


I CAN drive (And have several times. I used to race old beat-em-ups at my grandpa's "race track") but am currently not able to get my license because it costs upwards to 40,000 dollars to get the kind of equipment I need. Insurence won't pay for it because I'm too "able bodied." They did an physical exam to show my ability. A reaction time response, a vision test, and a decision making test. I did better than the people testing me on all of them, thinking it was to prove I could operate a car. They claimed I was capable enough to use a car, so I shouldn't NEED adaptations. *******s.


Yes and no. It's become increasingly moreso now that I'm with someone. Having to share day to day life with someone else makes you VERY aware of your inability to function as she is used to from others. There are many physical things I'm unable to do for her (Like pick her up, or wrap my arms around her, perverts.) that really hurts to think about. Otherwise, I've become completely relaxed with the day to day.


I tend to be a mage-kind-of-guy. But I do REALLY like dwarf fighters now and then.


He's funny?


No.


I have diastrophic dysplasia, or "dwarfism." I'm technically a dwarf. Gnome however is a silly term. Doesn't offend me, though. It'd offend me if someone meant it cruelly, because then I've got a problem with the person, not the word.


I never played a dwarf because their character models are ugly. Same for the gnomes. I was tempted to for all of the dwarf jokes I know, though.


The helpful and "HELLO THERE, MY NAME IS AMANDA! YES, A MA NDA" people are impossible.


Yong man or adults. I tend to buy half-pants (Summer pants) and wear them for full pants, and wear boxers for pants. Shirts are larges in boys. I've begun to find more and more clothes that fit me. I'd LOVE to custom order clothes, but that's very very expensive. Dwarf companies have been started, but they fail fast for the amount of under-income dwarves that cant afford it, or because they try to offset prices, and go bankrupt. I have begun to make my own pants, though.


This is another major topic of my project. Yes, they do, and I find it disgusting. More on this in the future.


#1: Acting/showbusiness
#2: Public Relations
#3: Management
#4: Unemployment Checks
(These were from a report I read from 6 years ago)


The largest percentage, if I recall.



I think it's a mockery, but I don't think it's exploitation. You willingly agree to be a midget stripper, midget wrestler, or manshow midget. The inability to get a job elsewhere is a sorry excuse. Life isn't fair, and if you don't want to be mocked for being different (Which is going to happen anyway) start learning PR or Management.


Very many. I get away with a number of things many other people wouldn't. I have many things pre-paid for me that most kids don't. I am also sometimes ignored when I'm part of a "bad people" party. People in general assume innocence of crippled people.


Being patted on the head is the most indignifying thing you can do to a dwarf. A dean from my old school patted me on the head EVERY TIME HE SAW ME. He acted like I was retarded when he did talk to me. Around other people, he's a stern faced *******. I finally turned to him one day after a head-patting and said "I'm going to start smacking your ***, princess." He stopped head patting. I apologized the next time I saw him because I'm weak.


I'd probably be the most athletic 5'6" black man you've ever met. I'd also have very powerful, but articulate hands. I myself am very very good with my hands, however crippled they are, so I wouldn't want to lose that.


Yes. Very much. That's one of the reasons for this project.


There were two rich dwarfes (Dwarfes for the real people, Dwarves for the mythical race) that spent a lot of money at my hospital. Otherwise, probably not, no. My major role-models were my parents and how they told me to hurry up and struggle with everything just like everyone else does, and deal with it.

1) What's up?

Second story window, ladder, chainsaw. A good Minja makes no sound.


Only if there's a midget underneith.


No, I don't have the grip for it.


I've never physically run a mile. My fastest manual standardized racing wheelchair time was something like 3.5 minutes. Don't quote me. I used to race, but not very competatively. It was a way to keep in shape.


I used to be a LOT more physical. I competed in weight lifting around the area. I bench pressed 300 lbs in 6th grade. I can only bench 95 currently. My massive physical change comes from my switch to a manual wheelchair to an electric. If you still don't believe me: How much weight can your legs lift? My arms had an even more proficient and hard-to-work movement in wheeling than your legs, and I used it twice as much.

My current regiment is an hour of laps in the pool followed by stretching, following by using two hands to curl, and then bench freeweights. Sometimes I run on a tredmill, but only if I'm at the crippled gym. I'm currently making a... thing? so I can treadmill at my school's gym.

Do those "Must be this tall to ride" signs at amusement parks annoy the hell out of you? I hated those things with a passion when I was a kid.

I can't ride those rides anyway due to neck injury. I'd love to, though. I bawled for 2 hours when the ONE ride I wanted to go on at Disney World, the ride we called ahead to ask if I would be able to, I couldn't. The Tower Of Terror was off limits to me entirely. I bawled and bawled and bawled.

It's a shame that you went to the trouble of calling ahead and they wouldn't let you do it when you got there.

I can understand it, though. The car falls faster than gravity, and when I rode there was a small child (probably shouldn't have been riding) who I saw float, his parent(s) held him down. Probably not safe at all.

In case you get involved in a brutal land battle, do you plan on encorporating serrated scythes into your wheelchair to bring unfathomable mutilation upon the legs and knees of the enemy army?

Within reason, what would you suggest for architects trying to make buildings (interior and exterior) more accessible to midgets? When I say within reason, I mean that for obvious reasons every kitchen countertop can't be a foot and a half high, etc.

teehee, i've gotten permission for kirby specific ones


1. When are we hanging out next?

2. do you think more massassians should go to JSM this year >.>

3. What was your favorite feature of a wheelchair that you wish every single one of them had?

4. Has someone ever carried you in one of those baby-carrier backback things, yoda-style in recent years?

5. Can i please please please steal your chair this time?

The major thing that helps is logical floor plans that have wide entrances, space between tables, and the like. It really isn't that hard to have a clear path to the front of a room.


I offered to hang out with you on two seperate occassions, ***. Maybe come film some for this project at the mall? I plan to ask this question to people in public.


All of them should. God dammit.


They're all so poorly made and illogically manufactured that I couldn't possibly think of a feature. Hydrolics, maybe? It's a multi-billion dollar industry of underdeveloped products. You'd think with the limited amount of purchases that they'd just make the goddamned things specific to each individual user. Instead they try to modify the standard for everyone. Saves them money, I guess? A sun/rain roof/top, the ability to install a radio, stereo, or other electronic devices, an easy means to swap out batteries, and better part supplies are some of the things they SHOULD have for 20,000+ dollars.


They tried. Manbits == squished.


Let me repeat: 20,000 USD.

oh i have one more question:



Why didnt u answer my question, it wus serious, it wis abot kiling ppl

Do you ever feel like you can say things to people others could not and get away with it for being a midget? Im not saying you would, im sure your a nice guy, but do you ever think that if you really wanted to just be an *** that you could totally get away with it and nobody would call you on it cus your disabled? or do you shy away from intense arguments, for fear that you would not be able to defend yourself if some ******* actually did decide he would fight a midget? For that matter, if you and another midget were arguing and it got out of hand, would you kick his ***? Do you think that your unique view on life has given you any wisdom that would be usefull to the rest of us? has there ever been a time that you were really glad that you were a midget for some reason or another? do you have psychic powers? if tommorow morning they somehow came up with a "cure" for being a midget and you could suddenly be taller, would you take it? or has being a midget become a part of who you are? are there any pets you would be afraid to own being your size?

06) Will you do a barrel roll for me?

07) I can't stop that feeling. Can you?

08) How very wet could a midget get if a midget could get wet?

09) Nice shoes, wanna dance? Oh wait...

10) Can I make you my teddy bear?

Willow or the dude from Alien: Resurrection?

I wouldn't ask anything; I'd be too busy laughing, Cartman-style.

How's the view down there?

Do you become drunk easier than a non-hobbit-person?

How do you have sex with a non-hobbit-person?

Sorry if this question is inappropriate, but is your manwiener comparable to the rest of your body, or is it non-hobbit-size?

I've only read about half the thread so far, so feel free to skip if you already answered these.


What was one (the worst?) time when you really needed help, but there was nobody around to help?

Do all midgets have multiple health problems?

What's the average midget shoe size?

And a variation of one of Joker's questions: Take away any health problems, how would you feel about being a midget?

Do you prefer the term Minja or Nidjet?

Aaaah. The piss-banking.

-I don't really have any questions, the memory just returned to me from nowhere as I was reading the thread.

What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen midget?

what are your thoughts on midget tossing?
would you ever participate in midget tossing?
how far could you toss a midget?
if i were to toss you would there be any aerodynamic advantages or disadvantages that could help/hinder your flight?
have you ever been offered a job in the adult entertainment industry?