At age 9, I contracted polio. At first I thought I was being punished for pretending to be crippled. For a year or so I had been using the slats from the bed and ace bandages to bind up my leg and walk around the house when no one was home. I had always been interested in people with disabilities. Never could understand why.
When I left the hospital I was in a wheelchair with both legs paralyzed. The left side was all the way up into my back and the right was just the leg itself. I had been fitted with bilateral, long leg, locking knee braces. In those days they were attached to the shoe. There was a piece of leather stitched to the inside of my left shoe and went up over the inside of my ankle and fastened with a buckle around the outside of the brace. This was supposed to keep my left ankle from turning inward. It was not needed on the right side.
After several months of physical therapy, my right leg regained some strength. The left leg never regained any function. With polio, feeling in both legs is still present, unlike a spinal cord injury. I was able to gradually do away with the right leg brace but still had to use the left one and crutches to walk with. I had also gotten over feeling punished and started enjoying what had happened to me. I loved the feel of the brace on my leg.
By the time I was out of high school, my left leg and buttock were very atrophied and less than half the size of my right. It was also about 1 inch shorter and I had a built up shoe. The ankle joint now had a spring in it that lifted my foot so it would not drag as I walked. I was crippled, looked and felt it and as I started college it became a sexual thing.
Getting around a college campus was very slow and tiring. I developed a lot of back knee in my right leg and pain after a lot of usage. I went back to using a wheelchair. I still wore the left brace and had a new better fitting right leg brace made. I have never gotten over how much I enjoy the feel of them on my legs.
I dated several girls at college and one I think was a devotee, a term I learned at the start of my junior year. She loved to watch me when I did walk a little and put her hand on my leg several times. She allowed me full access to her breasts and would masturbate me while rubbing her hand up and down my atrophied left leg epically when I had my braces on. She was just too shy to move any further I think.
By now my right leg below the knee was completely paralyzed again and I only had a couple of muscles in my thigh that I could use, but very little. When I used my chair I had an 1 ½ inch Velcro strap around my calf's and the chair frame that held my legs on the foot plate so they could not bounce off.
Another girl I got acquainted with was very open that she was a devotee and stated that was why she was interested in me. She also said she would like to try pretending. I asked her what type of pretending she was interested in and she was not sure if she wanted to be an amputee of some type or blindness. She could not really explain the last one; just that she liked to use her hands to explore things a lot and imagine what they looked like. She did so when alone with her eyes closed and at times covered.
She asked if I was bothered with that and I told her I was not and then she asked if I would help her explore it more. We had kissed and petted some and I could tell she wanted to take everything to the next level. She was not interested in me walking, liked me in my chair and that was where I was when we were kissing etc. She liked to sit in a chair along side of me and facing the opposite direction. I now understand that was how she wanted to be "looking" at me with her hands. I had never been undressed in any way with her and she was talking with me about all of this by the third time we went out.
She asked if she could show me how she became "blind" when she was home alone, and that she would like to go someplace with me (to be away from familiar territory) and do it all being totally blind. She also asked if I would not wear my braces and be wheelchair dependent. I had always had my braces on when we went out together. I told her I would enjoy doing that with her very much. She asked me if I would take her home, that it was accessible, and help her get blind now and that she wanted to stay that way for several days with me.