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The "plus side" of being a [[Squishy Wizard]] when [[Linear Warriors Quadratic Wizards]] applies. An athlete or a warrior who is crippled is pretty much screwed for life, but a genius or a wizard can keep on truckin'. The [[Blind Seer]] is another version of the archetype.

 

 

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* Another real life example: Jean-Dominique Bauby, who was left with his left eyelid as his only functional body part after a stroke. Using a system of blinking that eyelid, he was able to dictate an entire book about his life with Locked In Syndrome, during which he had to keep the entire book in his memory and edit the whole thing before giving instructions to his typist.

* Irish writer and artist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christy_Brown Christy Brown], who could only move his left foot due to cerebral palsy, but still wrote several poetry books and became a very famous in the Irish literary circles. Daniel Day-Lewis won an Oscar for portraying him in the movie ''My Left Foot''.

* US President [[Franklin D Roosevelt]]. Confined to a wheelchair by Guillain-Barré syndrome (The Polio diagnosis was incorrect) he still managed to become one of the greatest presidents America ever had. Of course, the general public didn't know that he was crippled. That's the benefit of a respectful press and a nice combination of leg braces and sheer willpower for those occasions that mandated standing up.

* Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, The Emperor Claudius, became Emperor by surviving, faking [[Obfuscating Insanity|mental illness]] and [[Obfuscating Stupidity|idiocy]], and suffered lameness in his legs (as well as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudius#Claudius.27_affliction_and_personality other physical deformities]). Considered now a pretty good Emperor, and a great builder.

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