always interested and finding the comments here very interesting.
when driving - look at the sidewalk before you pull across it when coming out of a parking lot! pedestrians have the right of way, and if I hear one more awful person try to say that because a person is using a wheelchair and thus is "on wheels" they aren't a pedestrian ... just ugh. so much ugh. anyone using a sidewalk legally has the right of way over a car coming out of a parking lot. anyone. regardless of wheel-status. I hate humanity as a whole on this issue.
actually the thing that is interesting to me is my work situation making the general rules I believe in actually not apply. so many of my patients are using wheelchairs as their primary mode of mobility, but 95% of them will not use that wheelchair in a month or so and don't have the feelings attached to the chair that the "typical" long-term chair user does. (in fact, because of society, they have the opposite feelings! they seem to expect that anyone passing by is obligated to push them wherever they want to go. they expect that everyone should ask them what's wrong and give them much pity - not even sympathy, pity. they seem to lose all sense to personal autonomy when seated in a wheelchair though they still have it seated in a straight chair or armchair or literally anything else.) so there's wheelchair user culture, and then there's the culture of someone from general society who happens to be in a wheelchair for a bit. or happens to have aged into a wheelchair. 99% of this sort of population doesn't seem to actually become wheelchair users by my reckoning, meaning they don't have the feels and opinions and personal autonomy "typical" chair users do. I try to teach people who are using a chair for more than a few weeks how to operate it without help and that they do have personal autonomy and shouldn't put up with shit. and then I also treat them the way I would want to be treated. a lot of healthcare people, especially in long-term care facilities and assisted living facilities and short-stay rehab facilities who deal with mostly the "atypical" chair users on a very regular and frequent basis, don't seem to realize that there are chair users who are independent and don't appreciate the grabbing and "helping" stuff. so I want them to realize that. and I want them to teach their patients not only that they are allowed - encouraged! - to stand up for themselves from a chair but also that those who don't use chairs (anymore) should STOP IT WITH THE BAD WHEELCHAIR BEHAVIOR.
i mean, ideally the only grab-and-"help" would be, as someone already said, in an immediate life or death situation. for any person using or not using any sort of mobility aid. and the whole world would just understand that. and this wouldn't have to be such a THING.
how about also: people with disabilities are not creating issues. YOU are creating issues by INVADING OUR BODIES AND MINDS and then somehow finding a way to turn it back around to us. society, stop it. (because i am utterly exhausted with the way any time anyone stands up for their own basic rights it's somehow them creating an issue.)
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Date: 2016-05-16 10:48 pm (UTC)when driving - look at the sidewalk before you pull across it when coming out of a parking lot! pedestrians have the right of way, and if I hear one more awful person try to say that because a person is using a wheelchair and thus is "on wheels" they aren't a pedestrian ... just ugh. so much ugh. anyone using a sidewalk legally has the right of way over a car coming out of a parking lot. anyone. regardless of wheel-status. I hate humanity as a whole on this issue.
actually the thing that is interesting to me is my work situation making the general rules I believe in actually not apply. so many of my patients are using wheelchairs as their primary mode of mobility, but 95% of them will not use that wheelchair in a month or so and don't have the feelings attached to the chair that the "typical" long-term chair user does. (in fact, because of society, they have the opposite feelings! they seem to expect that anyone passing by is obligated to push them wherever they want to go. they expect that everyone should ask them what's wrong and give them much pity - not even sympathy, pity. they seem to lose all sense to personal autonomy when seated in a wheelchair though they still have it seated in a straight chair or armchair or literally anything else.)
so there's wheelchair user culture, and then there's the culture of someone from general society who happens to be in a wheelchair for a bit. or happens to have aged into a wheelchair. 99% of this sort of population doesn't seem to actually become wheelchair users by my reckoning, meaning they don't have the feels and opinions and personal autonomy "typical" chair users do. I try to teach people who are using a chair for more than a few weeks how to operate it without help and that they do have personal autonomy and shouldn't put up with shit. and then I also treat them the way I would want to be treated. a lot of healthcare people, especially in long-term care facilities and assisted living facilities and short-stay rehab facilities who deal with mostly the "atypical" chair users on a very regular and frequent basis, don't seem to realize that there are chair users who are independent and don't appreciate the grabbing and "helping" stuff. so I want them to realize that. and I want them to teach their patients not only that they are allowed - encouraged! - to stand up for themselves from a chair but also that those who don't use chairs (anymore) should STOP IT WITH THE BAD WHEELCHAIR BEHAVIOR.
i mean, ideally the only grab-and-"help" would be, as someone already said, in an immediate life or death situation. for any person using or not using any sort of mobility aid. and the whole world would just understand that. and this wouldn't have to be such a THING.
how about also:
people with disabilities are not creating issues. YOU are creating issues by INVADING OUR BODIES AND MINDS and then somehow finding a way to turn it back around to us. society, stop it.
(because i am utterly exhausted with the way any time anyone stands up for their own basic rights it's somehow them creating an issue.)