Um, the first crush I ever, ever had, in the 5th grade, was my friend with spina bifida. He was perfectly normal, as far as I knew, save that he was wheelchair bound. Mind, he was a badass when it came to upper boddy strength compared to the rest of my friend, but he was a good friend.
What it is is usually the spinal column doesn't quite cover the spinal cord. Unfortunately, depending on how bad things are, this means that big, honking bundle of nerves isn't protected. Our spines are <3 to us.
Most of them are NT, normal, standard, average, what have you mentally. It's just sometimes there's the shunt thingy problem (Bleah. Sorry.).
I dunno, I guess if it's really, really severe... but most people with spina bifida seem able to get along just fine and are sort of happy their parents didn't euthanize them.
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Date: 2004-12-09 07:01 pm (UTC)What it is is usually the spinal column doesn't quite cover the spinal cord. Unfortunately, depending on how bad things are, this means that big, honking bundle of nerves isn't protected. Our spines are <3 to us.
Most of them are NT, normal, standard, average, what have you mentally. It's just sometimes there's the shunt thingy problem (Bleah. Sorry.).
I dunno, I guess if it's really, really severe... but most people with spina bifida seem able to get along just fine and are sort of happy their parents didn't euthanize them.