Faking Disability Exposed Their Motives

I pretended to be disabled for two years just to see how girls really treated me,

and it exposed everyone. It started senior year after a bad skateboarding accident messed up my knee.

I was on crutches for a month and used a wheelchair at school for a while.

During that time, something weird happened. Girls who never noticed me before

suddenly became kind. Too kind. Holding doors. Sitting next to

me. Asking how I was “really” doing. One even said, “You’re so brave,”

like I was dying. My knee healed, but I didn’t tell anyone. I kept the chair.

I learned fast. Sympathy is attractive. The first thing I noticed was how differently girls