1. “What’s wrong/what happened?” or “Were you born that way?”
2. “Oh, if you just have faith, you can be healed.”
3. Speaking slowly or loudly to someone who is in a wheelchair. (we can hear)
4. “I don’t even think of you as a person with a disability.”
5. “How do you go to the bathroom?”
6. “But you look so good.”
7. “Oh, you’re here, you must feel better.”
Some of that is funny and true but I personally don’t mind it and actually enjoy when people ask me what happened or if I was born this way. It opens the conversation to something very educational for them.
i agree. i actualy prefer that people know how it happened (motorcycle accedent), because it lets people know that im not a play it safe wheelchair guy, and since the most common misconceptions with people in wheelchairs its that they are mentaly retarded knowing that lets them know im just as down to earth as them.
The only one I disagree with is “I don’t even think of you as being in a wheelchair”. It reminds me that people are able to see beyond the disability. I mean sure some people are going to say that just to jerk your chain but I’ve had people genuinely say that to me.
What a great post! and I hate having those things said to me too!
I agree with Mary for all of them, that “It opens the conversation to something very educational for them” and I’m still getting use to “the fact” and it’s already been a long time that I’ve been this way. It just feels that way. New I mean.
One thing you should never say to the disabled is “Did you pay your own bus fair” bus fair wellfair.
I park in the disabled zone allthe time, I cant read (Wonder if I get a FREE bus pass).
wow this is funny. i dont mind any of the questions (even if they can be annoying at times) but after every question it reminds me of a really funny story. lmao
gotta love it
A bitch at a bar asked me why I was there. “Can you even have sex?” If I wasn’t a wheelchair user, I would have followed that cunt home an raped her just for spite.
Wow, I guess rape is a crime of power, not sex.