Matt's big date or disgrace? #3

| Unpublish | Delete On Aug 24, 2007 andymc2470 wrote:

love IT CANT WAIT 2 READ WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!

| Unpublish | Delete On Aug 24, 2007 halla07 wrote:

nice

| Unpublish | Delete On Aug 24, 2007 Daishi wrote:

wow ive really enjoyed the 2nd part as well! i cant wait for the next part, great job once again

| Unpublish | Delete On Aug 24, 2007 LaurieR wrote:

Good one! I will be waiting for the next part.

| Unpublish | Delete On Aug 24, 2007 BrooksHalten wrote:

Good job! I'd like to see the next part.

| Unpublish | Delete On Aug 24, 2007 andi and grim wrote:

thanks for the eye opener! love the story!

| Unpublish | Delete On Aug 25, 2007 wrote:

So sorry it took so long to comment! I wanted to save this one for last because it's always such a special story!! I loved it immensely... Matt is truly a sweetheart, and I know that these things happen in real life....it totally sucks I am so glad you're continuing this story, and I hope more people will read it! GREAT job

| Unpublish | Delete On Aug 25, 2007 Karie wrote:

Okay, Girlfriend, if you don't make it so that Matt and Jenny end up together, I am gonna..I'm gonna...I'm gonna...I know, I will steal the usb thingy to your mouse and you wont be able to move your mouse to sim! HA so there (yes, folks, these are the kinds of things Hiedibear has to deal with simming across the table from me here at home). Very good story, my friend. I am so into it. You better hurry and give me more! It really does blow chunks that people can be that way about someone with a disability. People need to learn that people are people and it's all about what is in their hearts that matters most. WTG BEAR!

| Unpublish | Delete On Aug 25, 2007 Karie wrote:

| Unpublish | Delete On Aug 25, 2007 swirlique wrote:

Awesome!!!! Matt and Jenny so better end up together!! And what a jerk for not liking special needs people--

| Unpublish | Delete On Aug 25, 2007 leifofdel wrote:

I agree with Karie, Moatt and Jenny should get together. Great job on a sweet story.

| Unpublish | Delete On Aug 25, 2007 rhondalee472 wrote:

I really like your stories it hits fairly close to home for me. My son has Cerebral Palsy, he is 10 and loves to ride rides at amusement parks and go shopping with me. We get some very strange looks sometimes but he just smiles at people and they just can't seem to not smile back. He is in a wheelchair by the way, I sometimes forget to mention that. I worry that when he gets older he may have trouble with finding love but I sure hope he doesn't.

| Unpublish | Delete On Aug 25, 2007 hiedibear75 wrote:

Thank you too all who have read this story. Parts 1, and 2 can be seen by going to my page. Much of what has happened so far and future stories are things that happen to people with disabilities. I myself use a wheelchair from an injury to a lower part of my spine. The experiences I depict are had by persons with disabilities (as I said) although not necessarily to me personally. I'm glad that everyone seems to be enjoying them (I wasn't sure how they'd be received) and am ecstatic that they've also managed to enlighten.

| Unpublish | Delete On Aug 25, 2007 poke_m wrote:

hey hiedbear75, you sure have a talent for writing stories and i actually liked first two since they were something different... although i think that matt wasn't right... he obviously didn't say that he is disabled while he and Sylvia were online chatting, that is quite like lying. he wanted to meet a nice and smart girl and wasn't exactly honest about himself... and when then Sylvia actually said that their would-be relationship wouldn't work, matt really overreacted. i don't want to start any kind of flame war but... people, be honest and respectful when you're trying to meet somebody. it really helps, okay?

| Unpublish | Delete On Aug 25, 2007 mini_mike wrote:

wow hiedi wtg good job again keep this 1 going and yes they better end up together ... for poke m wow it sounds like maybe some 1 might have pulled somthing simular on you' or been dishonist in some way ?.. but again not flameing .. but we need to rember thees are just sims not real people however most important thimg here to say is he shouldet have had to say he was handicaped because its whats on the inside not the outside .. being hiedis best friend i have learned that being handicaped is not a differnt thing from a able bodied person its only a way of getting around matt has feelings and a heart to just like the rest of us its all the same we have legs and he has wheels but inside is no differnt also they had been chatting online for sometime and then even exchanged pics and both got all huba huba over eachother so she liked him b4 she met him and enough to set up a date with him she had no trouble with him till she saw him in a chair well hmmm being in a chair dident change his personalty did it ???? nope she just was a shallow person and had probs when she saw him in a chair that makes her a a terble and shallow person who would be very loanly in real life

| Unpublish | Delete On Aug 25, 2007 fallenangelohio wrote:

Cannot believe that girl was so shallow! Jenny and Matt need to date or at least someone as sweet as Jenny. Too bad Lumbar wasn't trained to attack idiots who hurt Matt's feelings, but then no one would let helper dogs in public places, would they? Great story, can't wait for more.

| Unpublish | Delete On Aug 26, 2007 Karie wrote:

I agree w/mini_mike...no one should have to tell everyone they are meeting for the first time about any disabilities they have. It's not being dishonest. I mean think about it, you are just you. When you meet someone for the first time do online or in person, do you disclose EVERY LITTLE thing about yourself. Matt, to himself, is just Matt. His life is NOT just about his divisibility. To him, a wheelchair is NORMAL life. Just like for me, being hard of hearing and wearing hearing-aids is NORMAL. For hiedibear being in a wheelchair and blind is NORMAL. If someone likes someone online, shouldn't they like them in person for who they are and not how they look? Sorry poke_m, you are wrong! Very wrong! That person is the same if they are in a chair or not, deaf or not, blind or not..and ugly or not.

| Unpublish | Delete On Aug 26, 2007 poke_m wrote:

i'm quite pleased that this discussion has avoided any flame so far... Karie and mini_mike, you are most definitely right about Matt still beign Matt... but liking someone online isn't the same as liking someone IRL, you tend to idealize the other one and sometimes end up being disappointed when meeting them face to face.
i'm trying to defend Sylvia because her reaction was very natural... Matt's condition is of a such importance, that he should have mentioned it beforehand. Car accidents happen and it is really sad and i can't possibly imagine how much it changes your life... and that is not the "every little thing" that Karie says it is.
we are told to be tolerant, we have sympathy for disabled but we don't have it for those who can't cope with their date being disabled?

| Unpublish | Delete On Aug 26, 2007 hiedibear75 wrote:

I too am glad that this hasn't started any "flaming". Let me 1st off go ahead and just say that there are always two sides to any debate. As Karie stated she doesn't see her hearing aides to be out of the ordinary......and she is right that for me getting around in a wheelchair is not odd.....it's just how I get around. Too me my wheelchair is not unlike somebody needing to wear glasses. And one of the things that I'd like too but can't just because of sim action limitations......is portraying Matt to be more independent. If Matt were a "real life" person the spinal cord injury itself wouldn't make him very dependent at all. The injury chosen for Matt would be about mid back.....this would have left him paralyzed from the nipple or sternum down. People with lower level spinal cord injuries raise their children, go to work, and have hobbies just like everyone else. Although yes it is true that being a person with a spinal cord injury means a few differences, but what I was trying to convey is that Matt wants to go out to lunch with a nice girl just like his friends do and as he did before his accident. If more people were able to see, understand, and know that life from a wheelchair or with a disability does not make you different. Sylvia chatted with Matt several times......if it's true that Matt should have disclosed his disability than isn't it also true she should have just put it out there "BTW disabled peeps need not apply"? Disability is somewhat in the eye of the beholder......I've known C-5 quadriplegics who do more living, and laughing from a chair than many able bodied people do from their couches. In this story series if there are any hopes it would be that people reading them can learn about the importance of service dogs and the "rules" about them, to see that we have more in common than not, and to possibly dispel some myths or stereotypes that might surround spinal cord and brain injuries (specifically) and the people who move on in spite of them. I am not a wheelchair person but rather a person who uses a wheelchair, and I'm not "wheelchair bound" (I'm in it of my own free will vs. being trapped in it) a use a wheelchair to get around. (besides wheelchairs are faster than the "army crawl" I don't care how many drill sergeants want to argue the point. LOL

| Unpublish | Delete On Aug 26, 2007 Karie wrote:

You forgot to mention your very pink crutches! I still say Sylvia was in the wrong. Yes, poke_m, people are people and some people can't deal with disabilities. It doesn't mean we need to be tolerant of someone when they are prejudice against someone for something they cannot help. Where would the world be today if people continued to think that way. People like Sylvia need to learn digression. In REAL LIFE, I would hope that the Sylvia's in the world would be kinder when they think something isn't going to work out. Also, there is no need for flaming on here when the main reason of this story is to TEACH people about service dogs and give ideas on how people with disabilities live. Bear is a perfect person to write about this kind of stuff as she's been through a lot of it. No one on here wants to "Flame" anyone. TSR and the SIMS are FUN and this IS just a story (with a lot of real life things in it) and I hope we all recognize that fact. I would just hope that it teaches people to open their hearts a bit more. BTW BEAR, where's the next part of the story????Chop chop..get busy!

| Unpublish | Delete On Aug 27, 2007 spacemouse wrote:

Very nice story. I loved it. Looking forward to read the next part.

| Unpublish | Delete On Aug 28, 2007 hiedibear75 wrote:

I just uploaded part 4. "Should Jenny get to stay?" Keep your eyes peeled for it.

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 11, 2007 Dr-X56 wrote:

I want moooore of this NOW!! Else im making it for you
Hahahah.. More more more moreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 13, 2007 Little Seer wrote:

Well done keep up the good work. Cheers,

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 21, 2007 lildebbye75 wrote:

Great job, and to think I would have never saw this story if not for the pics in the screenshots about your newest chapter. Excellent job, Matt is a sweetheart some people throw away the best present that they could ever hope to have just because its not wrapped in a shiny little package with a pretty red bow. Can't wait to read the rest of your stories.

| Unpublish | Delete On Nov 3, 2007 civetinja wrote:

Great story ! Thanks !

| Unpublish | Delete On Dec 6, 2007 fufigod wrote:

wow truly a great story cant wait to read the next part

| Unpublish | Delete On Feb 22, 2008 qasert wrote:

| Unpublish | Delete On Jul 12, 2008 JENCA wrote:

Gosh, this opened my eyes. Very inspiring, also. Thank you

| Unpublish | Delete On Aug 20, 2008 tambriah wrote:

loving it

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 10, 2008 QG wrote:

i love this story already too! it's great, especially if you see the reactions of people, it's a sign that it makes people more openminded, especially the little(and may i add very siveliced*applause* )discussion.
That makes it an extra great story!

(can't help but to give my opinion too. mine is somewhere inthe middle. i always mention that i have a brain injury. and mine is even the lightest form, i almost never get seizures, and even if i do, they are very small and hardly anyone notices.
I always notice that it helps to tell them and talk about it before you meet.because then you open the door for questions, and other people can understand more about your life (even if it is as normal as anyone elses life, but that's what they don't know)and takes away the greatest barrier, which is, not knowing what to expect)

and stories like this do that too! keep up the great stories and thanks for sharing your personal insights!

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 17, 2008 cutedazy wrote:

what an original story!

| Unpublish | Delete On Oct 9, 2008 skyblue7377 wrote:

I don't have the words to describe how great it is to read your stories...you have incredible talant...just so so good

| Unpublish | Delete On Feb 18, 2009 maxi king wrote:

so great but so sad at the same time!A lot people always pick on other when they differend.it's so horrible!