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Nine Souls, One Body
Second Life blog/newspaper New World Notes reports on an interesting resident, wilde Cunningham. wilde is actually nine separate people on one account, all of them with physical handicaps that keep them in a care center. From the article: "We formed the man avatar first, because that day, we had more men in the group. We always wanted a female one, but we haven't taken the time to create her yet. Mary and Johanna would like that very much. We decided on how wilde would look first by starting with skin colors. We have both black and white in our real life group, and didn't want to have those because neither is better than the other. So we picked orange."
its interesting, but more for reasons of simulacra than reasons of handicapped people participating in normal life.
anyone can feel normal in a place where normal is clearly defined, in online games. simulate your own existance online, walk, talk, fight, dance, equally as good as anyone else. I'm not handicapped but I imagine that this feeling is intensely pleasurable to someone that can't participate fully in the real world because of physical limitations.
I have a great deal of respect for those of us that are limited in ways that others are not. personally, i don't think i could cope with the things that these folks deal with on a daily basis.
i find physically challenged folks extremely inspiring. if they find MMORPGs inspiring then that's awesome.