All these years on the SDMB ah have been livin’ a little ol’ lie! Ah have pretended to be a shorter-than-average, hairy, Jewish, libertarian-conservative man who likes science fiction and cooking.
Ah have covered up my TRUE story because I feared I would be MOCKED and SHUNNED. Yes, Umkay and Jaymac were frauds, but look how they were POUNCED on. Shocking, shocking it is.
The truth is that my real name is Sheba Shayne. I am a Southern quadripligic black woman who lives in Kentuckie! I returned home after a very promising career as a police woman and tennis pro. I returned home to help my parents who were being threatened by thugs-they wanted to take over the family business. Christmas! I beat their mamma-jamma heads in until they promised to leave daddy alone!
After I saved them, my mother fixed me up with my high-school boyfriend Steve Majors. We were deliriously happy for several months ya’all, but then, one fateful fall day, we went skydiving. My parachute ripped and I was nearly killed in the fall. I underwent an experimental procedure to let me move again, and it worked…but only briefly…about 2 years. For the last 20 years or so, I have had a variety of trips overseas, I type using a special biofeedback device that straps to my head and reads my engrams, translating them into text on the screen.
Now I can’t go into too much detail about that silly li’l ol’ procedure as it’s classivfied, but otherwise, ah’m an open book. Possibly one by deah Mr. William Faulkner or Miz Margaret Mitchell, who we’all jes’ love to death heah in Kentuckie.
If you’d like, I can tell you more about my life before and after my accident–or, as I like to think about it–my opportunity. Because only by being handicapped, ya’all, do you TRULY learn compassion and stuff, ya’hear?
What finally made me decide to come clean was the unflagging willingness of a few brave souls to speak out and to believe any story, however bizarre or outrageous (not that, mine is, sugah!), I’m puttin’ this in the pit beacause I want to also speak out against those bad mammajammas who dared to question Jaymac and Umkay and to thank those open-headed people who got pissy and strident defending them and asking everyone to just give them a chance!