The Prosthetic Flashes

''My prosthetist assumed I would like to have a cosmetic hand, one that has no real function but looks like the real thing, and so he made a mold of my remaining hand. An artist who produces fake wounds in Hollywood created a clear silicone mirror image. Then she sat with me for six hours, painting it, even embedding bits of hair snipped from my right arm. The result is haunting, and I don’t like looking at it. I’m not sure whom I would be wearing it for. I don’t feel the need to pretend or to make my presence easier on others...'' Miles O'Brien wrote.

Flashback:
May, 2014.
My flatmate, Ama, had come to print a document in my room. I was watching a documentary on BBC about a medical procedure that 'corrects' adults who where born with hearing and speech impairments. It made sense really, but I was outraged. She Didn't understand why. 

I tried to explain what i was feeling to her though;

Society is somewhat just uneasy with every kind of difference or 'unnaturality'. 
A child born with a physical disability is an embarrassment to the parents, family and the community. 
Instead of building an institution for those who are different to have them assimilate in their own abilities, society would try hard to 'correct' you. And yes, a man's congenital deformity or accidental deformity is his shame too. His difference makes people uncomfortable, embarrasses them for the most part, so he will take that option (of correcting it) when he finds it.

What I was really outraged about was totally different from the program being shown then. I had called my GP about surgery options earlier that day and asked about prosthetic limbs too for my right hand, all the while brooding, is a prosthetic arm worth the trouble? For who would I be wearing it for? should I care if people are uncomfortable with my difference? If it is just for aesthetics, isn't it a sort of deceit, some form of living in denial that I would make a counterfeit?
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