The Lives of Dwarfs are Different

Little People were on TV tonight, on PBS. One dwarf recalls being taken to the hospital when he was 18, and told by the doctors, ‘sorry there’s nothing we can do…you’ll always be a dwarf.’ He said he decided then and there ‘to be the best dwarf I could be.”

Many other dwarfs recall being surprised when they saw a room ful of other little people, at the 1981 Little People’s Convention. To see the little people interacting with regular sized folks made each dwarf much more affected than before.

One women dreamed of running. If i had long strong legs, I’ve love to run, she said. Many dwarfs talked about the operations they had to have, the braces that unsuccessfully kept their spines from curving.

You get left out in dating, some dwarfs realized, as they grew older. It’s ok before that, but when people start pairing up, dwarfs are not paired up. One pretty red haired dwarf married a regular sized person. She said it was nice that he could lift her up on stools, and protect her when she walked on the street. Her parents were disappointed that she got together with a non-little person.

A strikingly pretty Indian dwarf’s father tried to find her a mate in India. But since they don’t educate many dwarfs there, the best they could find was a man with a 6th grade education. She was an engineer, so she said no. But she found a perfect mate at a Little Person convention a few years later.