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This use to bother me a lot too and I can't honestly say it doesn't still at times but I have learned that you can grow in other areas where people will look up to you (I am so damn sorry for that terrible pun ). All I can offer about the jokes, laugh with them. Diffuses it quicker than anything I've found. Seriously. Most people, in my experience, won't joke with you about it until they know it doesn't bother you. If it doesn't bother you, and that is their intention then it would be pointless for them anyway right? You're laughing too!

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Very wise words, Mayam! I had a step-cousin who is blind and we use to do all the "Now, see here. . . " jokes. I have a quadriplegic friend and his line is, "Don't make me get up out of this chair!"