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Hip Displasia & Other Details

I think it's obvious that I was a little different from the get-go. I had a condition called hip displasia which required me to wear this plastic brace between my legs for almost a year and a half. Basically my hip socket didn't fully fit the ball portion of the upper thigh bone. I find this to be an apt metaphor for always feeling like I didn't fit; 

like a square peg in a round world. 


Still it had its perks - I was able to do the splits on command for years afterward. This would have come in handy had I pursued cheerleading, but after one humiliating season on a Catholic cheer squad in 5th grade, wherein I was ALWAYS the base in the pyramid, I quit to pursue other ways to cheer up the world around me

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Me? A few things come to mind.

  • Perfectly imperfect (TM?)

  • An unsure "writer" (is there any other kind?)

  • A voracious reader and lover of all things "words" 

  • A person who also MUST have music in my life

  • Deep thinking, reflective, but someone who laughs heartily most days

  • Always trying to figure out life from all sorts of vantage points - factual, emotional, physical, spiritual, psychological, cynical, hopeful, and often comical (especially when it's painful)

  • Someone who has been diagnosed with OCD 
    (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) - I think sans OCD I'd 
    still see the world in an out of the ordinary way (and I'm okay with that)

  • A self-doubter 

  • A woman, a mom, a wife (I'm gay), a daughter, a sister, an aunt, a friend, an employee

  • Just a regular person, really...

  • ...with a bad McDonald's Diet Coke habit 

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