There are plenty of people in the world who can take a few steps but use a wheelchair so they can live a more fulfilling life, since they can’t walk far.
Saying “it’s a miracle” to this is quite shitty behaviour
There are plenty of people in the world who can take a few steps but use a wheelchair so they can live a more fulfilling life, since they can’t walk far.
Saying “it’s a miracle” to this is quite shitty behaviour
Stuff like this enables bullying of disabled people. Sometimes they can walk, but only so far. Invisible disabilities suck so much. There's always a Karen than thinks you only need a wheel chair if you're paralyzed and that's simply not the case.
Someone shamed some old vet beggar who would sit in a wheelchair by a known intersection in town.
He was missing a leg.
Someone posted on some community FB page , photos of the guy standing and bending down or something.
And people were going crazy saying he was a faker for asking for money.
Dude was a vet who lost his leg.
He wasn't paralyzed. He never said he was.
He is in the chair because he can't walk much.
Doesn't mean he can't stand at all.
Idk. But yeah it's a common misconception that only paralyzed people need wheel chairs.
It's a tricky line to walk.
On the one hand, you are absolutely right that ability to hobble over a few feet from your chair does not mean the chair is obviously not needed.
On the other, wheelchairs are a very popular prop for grifting folks.
It's pretty damn near impossible to make an informed judgement on such a matter in an instant, and lots of people do exploit that.
No. It isn’t.
So it's easy, which path did you like, giving anyone with access to a prop wheelchair however much they are trying to get out of you, or denying aid to anyone that ever managed to get up out of a wheelchair, however briefly?
Let's assume that people massively want to cheat (unfortunately, they don't, and a lot of people die because of this); let's say 9 people on 10 are cheating. Are you okay to discriminate one handy because you don't want to be scam ?
You just making him/her pay because of your ego. To rephrase it : one many disabled people are you okay to discriminated because you don't want to be scammed ?
Okay let's levelup; if someone is cheating, maybe this one has a better idea of the reason he has to do it than you are.
They should make wheelchairs with built in toilets
It would be too sloshy.
Commode chairs exist (for rolling from bed to over the toilet or using with a pot when the toilet isn't accessible) but they usually don't have the big pushable wheels, just little casters, so someone else has to drive.
Leg bags with catheters also exist and can be worn in a wheelchair.
But it's also legit for a person with (for instance) a bad heart or hips or back to need a wheelchair while being able to stand or walk briefly. Perhaps enough to get to the hedge but not a farther-away public toilet, if there even is one.
imagine a world where there's mobile portapotties that follow people around using enhanced scanning devices to seek out the people most likely to need them
You are rolling along minding your own business, and suddenly out of nowhere a portapotty starts stalking you down the street. You dont need to use a bathroom but it just keeps silently following you, maintaining a distance that is both comforting and creepy as hell. You feel watched, because you are. Both by the portapotty and by everyone in the vicinity who are waiting to see if you do need to use the bathroom. Those algorithms are always right, thats what the marketing said anyway.
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