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But by the time I was 14, I was really tired of Ridge School. My best friend Pete died from muscular dystrophy that year. He was the only kid at Ridge I could talk to.

Without Pete, there was nothing. Longing for something different, Linda explored options available for Dan to attend mainstream high school. A psychologist told Linda that Dan was not prepared, either educationally or psychologically, of handling the rigors of a mainstream school.

Still, Linda fought — and won — the battle to place Dan in a mainstream program. He was eventually enrolled in Parkville High School. There was a silver lining, however. It was at Parkville that Dan discovered art. The same head stick pointer, albeit with brush or charcoal pencil attached, that gave Dan an opportunity to communicate with others gave him an altogether different voice.

Top review. A couple of weeks later, on an idle Friday evening I was surfing through the channels and something had just begun on Discovery. The title was King Gimp. It sounded familiar. So I watched. It soon came to me, that this was the movie from the Oscars. I was touched.

I cried. It was a very intimate piece of work and the Oscar was certainly well deserved. Bravo to King Gimp! I hope you will be interested in sharing the rich diversity of my life with your staff, clients, and their families. Following are links to more information on King Gimp, as well as to some quotes about Dan. For more information, please visit the following websites: www. I look forward to hearing from you and the possibility of sharing the extraordinary world of my journey.

References are made available upon request. Inside I am still very much the same person, but it does feel good to be respected and appreciated for who I am.

I hope that people who have seen King Gimp have gained this new awareness not only for me but for others who have physical disabilities. DK: I spend about a week doing the actual painting. My way of painting has changed since the documentary was done. I still use the headstick for painting, but I now paint on un-stretched canvas that is at least 4x5 feet. My friends cut the canvas and mix all of my paints at once. I paint from photographs and spend a lot of time looking at my extensive collection of photographs to see if I have something that hits me.

If I don't, I take some more photos. It's kind of like setting up my own model or still life. DK: I just look for powerful feelings and emotions that give me a certain connection. My subjects have to have some connection with me, that can't come from the outside world.

I look for the abnormal in normal life. CC: I see that you have painted several self-portraits. Have you gotten to know that subject fairly well?