Oh wow, this is the first time I've ever been prepared for an IAMA.
Peter, I am such a huge fan of yours. Watching The Station Agent when I was 10 and seeing someone else like me realistically represented on the screen was massive thing for me. It truly helped me during a really angsty part of my life, and I believe a lot of the progress I made in the next few years in accepting my dwarfism was from watching your fantastic portrayals (and watching The Station Agent again about 40 times). They gave me a basis to believe I could be a fully realised person in my own right, and not just a one -dimensional novelty in everyone else's eyes.
I'm afraid I don't have a question, I just really hope you read this because - even though you're probably aware of it already - you have made such a big difference to so many people, especially for others with dwarfism, so thank you. Thank you so much for doing what you do.
EDIT: Again this is the first time I've managed to catch an AMA so early - I didn't realise it was such a faux-pas to not have a question. I sincerely apologise - I can see how it could be annoying. I didn't expect to be upvoted like crazy!
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Oh wow, this is the first time I've ever been prepared for an IAMA.
Peter, I am such a huge fan of yours. Watching The Station Agent when I was 10 and seeing someone else like me realistically represented on the screen was massive thing for me. It truly helped me during a really angsty part of my life, and I believe a lot of the progress I made in the next few years in accepting my dwarfism was from watching your fantastic portrayals (and watching The Station Agent again about 40 times). They gave me a basis to believe I could be a fully realised person in my own right, and not just a one -dimensional novelty in everyone else's eyes.
I'm afraid I don't have a question, I just really hope you read this because - even though you're probably aware of it already - you have made such a big difference to so many people, especially for others with dwarfism, so thank you. Thank you so much for doing what you do.
EDIT: Again this is the first time I've managed to catch an AMA so early - I didn't realise it was such a faux-pas to not have a question. I sincerely apologise - I can see how it could be annoying. I didn't expect to be upvoted like crazy!
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