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<\/a><\/p>\nIn his memoir, Double Take<\/em><\/a>, he talks about travel. People around the world, he explains, tend to stare.\u00a0 And, with his camera, he stared back.<\/p>\n Curiosity, it appears, is very human. But people in different places tend to speculate differently as to the source of his lost legs and that, he discovered, is quite culturally specific.<\/p>\n In Sarajevo, people tended to think that he’d lost his legs in mines during the Balkan conflicts.\u00a0 In New Zealand he overheard a child asking his mother if he’d been attacked by a shark.\u00a0 In Montana, he was asked if he still wore his dog tags from Iraq.<\/p>\n I broke my leg five weeks ago and, for what it’s worth (not much really), my experience, also, is that people speculate based on their own experiences and their relationship to you.\u00a0 An avid lindy hopper (12 years now… well, not now <\/em>exactly, but again real soon), many of my dance friends immediately inquire as to whether I broke my leg dancing.\u00a0 My raunchy friend, Fancy, asked if I broke it “doin’ it.”\u00a0 The second most common guess is that I broke it stepping off a curb.\u00a0 It turns out lots of people do that.\u00a0 Who knew!<\/p>\n For more, see Connolly’s website<\/a> or listen to the NPR Radio Story<\/a>.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NPR recently featured a story on Kevin Michael Connolly. Connolly is an athlete, adventurer, author, and photographer who was born without legs. In his memoir, Double Take, he talks about travel. People around the world, he explains, tend to stare.\u00a0 And, with his camera, he stared back. Curiosity, it appears, is very human. But people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[218,15,8055,1856,3920,108,309],"class_list":["post-25940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bodies","tag-culture","tag-nation-bosnia","tag-nation-iraq","tag-nation-united-states","tag-sports","tag-warmilitary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25940"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71297,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25940\/revisions\/71297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}