133: Carson Tueller | Part 2
Homo Sapiens
Christopher Sweeney
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
“People who walk are miserable as well!” This week we are talking to the extraordinary life coach, Carson Tueller who suffered paralysis after a spinal cord injury the same year he came out as gay to his Mormon family. We dive in on navigating Grindr when you’re disabled, hear refreshingly honest words about how sex has changed since paralysis and he tells us how he found a very interesting loophole in Mormon rules that he could use to his advantage! Chris and Alan x
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| 0:00.0 | Picture this, static cars, idling engines, angry horns, now picture you, zooming past |
| 0:12.4 | it all, light and breezy, ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic. |
| 0:21.0 | Make your train journey via AvantiWestcoast.co.uk. |
| 0:25.1 | AvantiWestcoast, feel good travel. |
| 0:36.3 | Welcome back, hello part two, this is our lovely chat with Carson Tula. |
| 0:41.2 | If you haven't heard part one, go and have a listen, then come back here, it'll be in |
| 0:46.8 | your feed. |
| 0:47.8 | Take it away for part two, here's Carson. |
| 0:57.2 | What happened to your boy you were dating, your first kiss? |
| 1:01.8 | Oh yeah, so he was incredible, he was incredibly supportive, he was in the hospital with me, he |
| 1:10.0 | told me he thought that he could move closer so he could kind of pursue things while I was |
| 1:13.7 | in recovery, and I just realized I was not in a place where I could have a full on |
| 1:21.2 | relationship, and I just needed to focus on recovery, so we ended up breaking up so that |
| 1:28.1 | I could just kind of explore this new body and figure out how to do some really basic |
| 1:35.4 | life things, but he was incredible, he continues to be one of my closest friends. |
| 1:41.2 | Oh that's really nice, I'm so glad to be here, it's lovely, and what was that like having |
| 1:47.1 | he was new in your life, but you've got this, your family coming together around this |
| 1:51.2 | big event, he's there, and were they accepting of him, how was that? |
| 1:56.5 | Yeah, it was new, that's a good point, it had only been a couple of weeks that my family |
| 2:01.5 | had met him, and they were still very much getting used to this idea of me having a boyfriend, |
| 2:09.9 | yeah, they were accepting, and he was in the hospital with us, and he was visiting me |
| 2:13.8 | in the ICU, and he was close to my sister, and that part was not too much of a problem. |
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