Introduction

[Guest guest]

Hi everybody!

I'm Zaman. I'm a 32 y/o Pakistani guy living in Dallas. First let me

thank whoever came up with the idea of this chat room ( please do take a

bow ). It's been for a few years now that I've been putting different

keywords related to CMT and chat on various browsers and coming up with

nothing helpful. The CMTA website was hardly any help. So again, hat's

off to the webmaster behind this project.

Secondly, an apology in anticipation. I have a habit of writing either

very long messages or none at all for weeks. There's nothing personal

about this. I wanted to clarify this initially as most of the people

I've offended, I've done so by simply not doing anything for a little

too long. I assure you that I'm very considerate and responsible but

just a little capricious and do things on passionate impulses or dire

threats. The same goes towards paying credit card bills.

The above having said, a little about my condition. I have CMT with '

inverted champagne bottle ' legs, ' triumphant arches ' and mildly

curvacious spine. Going to movie theatres and falling at rocky beaches (

Ouch! ) became a problem in the teens. Surprisingly, I'm a sporadic case

with no family history. All the better as I would have been a more

disagreeable teenager than I actually was for my parents. Was kind of

asocial in my teens but sort of overcompensated. Now I inadvertantly try

to get the best of people to get them back at me and be more natural. My

attitude got me the title * The guy with the sexy walk * in my college.

I subconciously work on this need to let the graceful walkers around me

not be subdued and disquieted with me lurching around in the room. I

know they can't help it but in provoking them, they lose that concern

for me and I'm less self concious.

Anyway, I'm in the U.S. now where even the Grand Canyon and Niagara are

somewhat accessible to me and I'm not doing the little falls nowadays.

My reason to join this club was to get rid of my loneliness simply. A

permanent static limp becoming second nature is easy and tends to grow

on people but muffling a dynamic, progressive waddling gait as it

changes on you is getting a bit tedious.

I therefore require the company of both talkative and listening women

and competitive guys. I'll dabble in with the chats but the process

being much slower for me as I peck and do not type, I'd prefer to meet

people ( if they would me) living in or around Dallas. Lately, I talk my

heart out to my female shrink but it's been only two visits and I know

she'll get tired of me pretty soon. I'm looking for both something

casual as well as long term. I've knelt down twice with a rose in my

hand in vain and therefore am a little shy. I'm in the health profession

and somewhat in awe of the phenomenon of natural selection. I love kids

but would not want to give them my legacy - again, I love kids and would

gladly adopt one with CMT if my partner was ok with it. I love my two

year old nephew but I've never dared to pick him up standing up myself

more for his benefit - this remains a reservation for me when I think

about marriage and kids, you know - the early years - who picks

up the kids if both the spouses are differently-abled? I'd love to hear

experiences of actual parents.

In addition, I'm an Aries and though temperamentally laid back, i have

this unrealised potential for physical competitiveness. I'm 32, 5'8* and

160lbs and not in the best physical shape, but if you're a guy around

Dallas, with or without CMT, and interested, I'll try anything from

racquetball to go cart racing to combat sports.

Zaman Shirani