Los sorprendentes disfraces de un joven sin una pierna

Josh Sundquist volvió a sorprender a sus seguidores con los más originales disfraces para Halloween.

El joven es furor en las redes sociales por el humor con el que se toma sus dificultades motrices.

El muchacho perdió su pierna izquierda cuando apenas tenía nueve años producto de un sarcoma de Ewing.

"Siempre me he enfrentado a la incomodidad social por mi discapacidad con sentido del humor. Pero ahora me siento más cómodo con quién soy y con mi aspecto, y creo que con estos disfraces de Halloween se podría decir que hasta celebro lo que me hace distinto. Lo que puede ser extraño o refrescante, depende de tu perspectiva", sostuvo Josh.

HALLOWEEN COUNTDOWN 👻 6.5 days • Throwback to 2013. The year of the flamingo. • Earlier that year I'd spotted an ostrich at the zoo and thought, "Hey that looks like me. If I was, you know, doing a handstand on my crutches." A few minutes later, I walked by the flamingos and thought, "Even better." • That's basically how I get the ideas for these costumes. I'm always looking for things that are shaped like me. Which seems to be an instinctive human behavior. We are always looking for ourselves—in mirrors, on the side of shiny buildings when we walk by on the sidewalk (don't pretend you don't look), and on selfie cams. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ • Like, a computer would interpret the end of that paragraph as a series of unicode characters. But YOU saw a person shrugging, right? So that's how I think of costume ideas. Just like you, I recognize my body within the shapes and characters around me. • My shape, at least in terms of limb count, is different than most people's. It's even different than most amputees, who usually retain some portion of their limb. (That portion is called a "stump"—kind of crude but that's actually the word most doctors use). Anyway, my leg was amputated at the hip, so I don't have any stump at all. In fact, if I did have a stump, most of these costumes (especially the flamingo) wouldn't work. These particular costumes depend on me being shaped in this particular way. • It turns out that that your body is shaped in a particular way, too. In fact, every body is. (That pun was for you, Dad). Maybe your shape is not something you want to build your Halloween costumes around (who would do that? ugh sounds weird). But this Halloween, I hope to be a reminder to you that you can accept—or even celebrate—your body no matter how it happens to be shaped.

Una publicación compartida por Josh Sundquist (@joshsundquist) el 25 de Oct de 2017 a la(s) 10:19 PDT

HALLOWEEN COUNTDOWN 👻 6 days • Throwback to 2015. What I love about this video is that at first you think it's just a sign. Like, where's the costume here? And then I hop away and you're like ooooooh now I get it • ALSO: If you swipe right you'll also find my 2014 costume. I dressed as a foosball player in 2014 because that was the first year I was playing in an international tournament with the US Amputee Soccer Team. So it felt appropriate. Because, if you think about it, amputee soccer is basically human foosball.

Una publicación compartida por Josh Sundquist (@joshsundquist) el 25 de Oct de 2017 a la(s) 10:45 PDT

HALLOWEEN COUNTDOWN 👻 5 days • #TBT to #Halloween 2016 • About two-thirds of you have started following me since last Halloween (thanks!), which means you might've missed this costume I wore last year. So I present you with with my 2016 Halloween costume: Lumiere from Beauty and the Beast. • I wanted to dress as this character last year because the live-action version of the movie was coming out a few months later, and I knew Ewan McGregor was going to be playing a two-legged version of Lumiere. I was afraid that after the movie was released, the animated monopod Lumiere of our childhoods would be replaced in the popular consciousness by Ewan McGregor's biped Lumiere. • Which, in hindsight, I don't think has happened. The movie was fantastic, but it seems like people still imagine the animated version when they think of this character. Sidenote: In my humble opinion Disney should have kept Lumiere's original body-shape by casting me for the role. Just saying. • Anyway, I'll be sharing this year's costume VERY soon. Wanna take a guess?

Una publicación compartida por Josh Sundquist (@joshsundquist) el 26 de Oct de 2017 a la(s) 9:19 PDT

Here’s my Halloween costume!

Una publicación compartida por Josh Sundquist (@joshsundquist) el 26 de Oct de 2017 a la(s) 4:21 PDT

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