Thursday, August 22, 2013

Fitting in a world that is too tall, too big, too...EVERYTHING

This world is not made for little people, it's just not. So there are certain things I have to do in order to make everyone's world MY world.


These here are my pedal extenders, one gas and one brake. They are screwed onto my car's actual pedals. I drive an elantra and even with the seat moved all the way up, the extenders are necessary. These pedal extenders can be unscrewed and put onto a different car as long as they fit. What I didn't take a picture of is my seat; I sit on a small pillow and behind me is a larger, fatter pillow that supports my back. 


This is my shower head. The lower head is the one I use and can be moved to different heights as needed. The reason for a lower shower head is so that I can take it off to have more control of where the water is going. Before I got the new shower head, it was a lot harder to reach certain areas and make sure that they were clean. It also comes in handy when cleaning the shower too. 


A sideways sink? What?! Yupp in my downstairs bathroom and in my upstairs bathroom my sinks are sideways. This was done a long time ago and it was so I could reach the faucet even when on a stool. So don't say I didn't warn you if you ever come over and use my bathroom. 






THE STOOL! Without stools in my house I would most likely be in the hospital 24/7 from falling off shelves trying to reach something. The stepstools in my house help me reach literally EVERYTHING. From food in my refrigerator to my favorite pair of jeans to the kitchen sink to do the dishes. And no I don't have three stools in my house, I probably have like 5. There should be a warning label on my stools telling you that they will sneak up on you out of nowhere and cause you to stub your toes or trip over them. 

Yes those are two wooden sticks and yes they are hooked into my light switches. This lovely adaptation is only in my room, for reasons I don't understand cause there are light switches in my house I still can't reach on flat feet and these were put in when I was five. These handy dandy sticks allow me to turn my lights and fan on and off. Now that I have exceed 3 feet tall I don't necessarily need them but I use them still every time. 


So yeah, those are a few things I have to adapt this world to make it one that I can fit in. It may look strange but to me it's just a part of being a dwarf in an average sized world. 


Sayonara!
-Jillian Ilana 

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