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| Dueling with a disorder; how disease effects your life asaduelist | |
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| tea'sfavoriteharumboy | Jul 10 2005, 01:49 AM Post #1 |
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ok, before we get into anything, you should no this isn't one of those I-have-a-disease-so-you-should-take-pity-on-me-and-give-me-stuff-and-let-me-win sob stories... this IS real, but it's just something to make you guys think... As some of you may already know, I have hemophilia. Severe hemophilia A, to be exact. This is a rare blood disease (don't worry, it's not contagious, and is rarely fatal.) which stops me from clotting like normal people. No, that doesn't mean that if I get a cut I bleed uncontrollably, it means that, like everyone else, I bleed INTERNALLY. But unlike anyone else, I can't stop. See, everyone has 14 factors, carried on thier platelets in the blood. I am missing the eighth of them, and without that, I cannot stop myself from bleeding, on the INSIDE..... And while you guys do bleed internally, you guys have all 14 factors, which alllows you to clot normally.... And while some may think that one or 2 medical issues that have me bed-ridden every few days, for 2 or 3 days at a time, it is. I have never missed a single local yugioh tournament in my life as a duelist, but I do get sonme interesting things happening.... I have had to go to a tournament or 3 in a wheelchair before, and things like that. The questions are fun, as I do enjoy the extra attention, but when people that don't personal;l;y know me let me win because they feel sry for me, I have to say that I lost that duel, because I didn't win it fairly..... It gets so annoying, we don't want pity, except for those attention hogs that set annoying steriotypes, we wanna be treated like equals. Hemophilia, or any other disorder or disease, i'm sure, effects a duelist's life in more ways than people just letting me win... Such as the fact that I am homeschooled because of it (actually it was because the school systems were royal dil-holes about it, but it's the same basic thing....) And while I used to bwe in a mainstreem school, when my gym teacher told the school about my disease without my permission, I got a big red target on my back, and the faculty was just egging the entire student body on.... no exxagerations... So there's a very small amount of people to duel (or at least there was, b-4 I met you guys... YAY! you guys!), which meant I kept getting rusty..... Until I found I could duel myself, and keep myself semi-fresh that way.... (teehee, I played with myself all the time, j/k) but there was still noone around to play with before you... I'm getting off subject and getting whiny.... sry.... The main idea of this thread is to open the eyes of duelists everywhere to duelists with diseases and disorders... AND the fact that they are opponent's the same as anyone else, and should be treated as such.... for anyone with questions, feel free to ask, I'm not shy about anything you could say on this subject, so long as none of it involves "3rd nipples" (refferring to the port surgically inserted in me at 5), or stuff like that.... I guess that's all for now... I'll go edit this later when I have something else or better to say... which I will..... for now good-bye... I leave you with these parting words:"If a chicken had lips, could it whistle?" lol |
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....that was a joke up above .....ok no it wasn't. .....Got you again. ......or did I | |
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| ToiletPaper101 | Jul 10 2005, 01:56 AM Post #2 |
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Woah, cool article. I didn't find it whiny at all.
Uh..can't think of any questions right now, maybe later lol. Good job on that
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| tea'sfavoriteharumboy | Jul 10 2005, 05:35 AM Post #3 |
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you think so??? I tried ot to be to whiny, just explanatory.. if that's even a word (i hope) |
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| Raging Flame Sprite | Jul 10 2005, 09:47 PM Post #4 |
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not whiny at all, and yes, explanatory is a word. um...what can i say? i'll never let u win...unless of course i have 100 LP, no mon, no m/t, and just topdecked a NoC...at that point i have no choice, lol. but ur taking a good approach to this. ur not letting it affect u negatively, so keep it up oh, i have a question! this intrigued me from the start...how exactly did u duel urself? musta had a good method, u sure don't seem rusty. in fact, u were rather good
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| tea'sfavoriteharumboy | Jul 11 2005, 11:31 AM Post #5 |
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i had 2 decks, and dueled as ifd i was playing for both of them, and hadn't seen what my opponent had... it's a good way to train for a tournament, you should try it sometime... i still do it today, even with people to duel.... |
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| Apocolypse | Jul 11 2005, 02:31 PM Post #6 |
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That's cool. and nice article too. It wasn't whiny for the record, it had much truth in it and I am glad that you aren't beating yourself up or going on the "pity" route because of it. Hehe, I dueled myself like that too...a few times that is....it actually isn't that bad of a way to practice. It helps you see how well two decks run at once. And then you swap some cards and continue and such. |
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| tea'sfavoriteharumboy | Jul 11 2005, 03:41 PM Post #7 |
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yeah, the only bad thing is that you're never sure if you really are doing it right, ior your subconcious is telling you what to do...... |
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| Apocolypse | Jul 11 2005, 04:28 PM Post #8 |
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yah, and plus you do KNOW what each "player" has....so that may actually effect you some too. |
| I will kill anyone who dares stand in my way of world conquest! *ehem* I mean, if I am opposed you shall indeed regret it! | |
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| Raging Flame Sprite | Jul 11 2005, 04:46 PM Post #9 |
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i really can't do that...so, cool that u can |
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| Apocolypse | Jul 11 2005, 05:55 PM Post #10 |
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Why can't you? |
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| Raging Flame Sprite | Jul 11 2005, 07:48 PM Post #11 |
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everything i do is affected by what i know i have...weird, i know. it just doesn't help me. |
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| tea'sfavoriteharumboy | Jul 11 2005, 10:02 PM Post #12 |
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it just takes practice, you'll get it eventually..... just keep going, it's like playing pretend... just pretend that you don't know what they have..... |
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| Apocolypse | Jul 11 2005, 11:38 PM Post #13 |
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yah, exactly, it took me a little bit to get used to it. But it isn't impossible. |
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| tea'sfavoriteharumboy | Jul 12 2005, 07:13 PM Post #14 |
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and it's fun , once you get the hang of it..... anyway.... yeah, i'm gonna edit this around monday, and maybe explain my disorder a bit more...... |
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| Apocolypse | Jul 12 2005, 07:28 PM Post #15 |
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Ok. |
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Uh..can't think of any questions right now, maybe later lol. Good job on that
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