Briel Adams-Wheatley

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We Need To Talk with Paul C. Brunson · Born With No Limbs: I Didn't Want To Be Their Poster Child! Briel Adams-Wheatley · 23 Jun 2026 podcast

And so all of that started coming in.

But then you're also in school.

So I'd have to go to school and hear all the things that people would say about me.

So if it wasn't coming from my brothers, it was coming from someone at school saying something to me.

that would also get in my head.

I mean, my brothers are brothers and they would just tease me all the time and be like, you know, you're adopted, right?

And I'm like, obviously, yeah.

But then they would just make horrible jokes about my birth mom.

And then they'd be like, and that's why mom and dad had to get you.

I'm like, well, that's not true.

But as a little kid, you internalize that and you think that it is true.

I would get made fun of for either having a big fat wheelchair, or I would get made fun of for wearing the same, because everybody thought that I wore the same black pants to school.

But at the start of the school year, we'd go to the DI, the thrift store, and we would buy all the black soccer pants that came in from last season.

and just buy them all because they were the only pants that I could actually put on by myself because they had the elastic waist to them.

And since I was walking around at recess, I'd rip holes in them super fast.

And so since they were only $2 a pair, I was like, okay, buy 20 of them and then rip as many holes as you want.

But people at school would just see it as just the same black pair and be like, that's so gross that you wear the same black pair.

I'm like, it's not the same.

So then finally, I think in the fifth or sixth grade, we started adding colors of red and blue into the shorts.

I honestly don't think I ever talked to anyone about it, really.

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