Wheelchair

[whisky]

Last week we got a wheelchair for my wife, she doesn't need it all the time, but it helps if she is in a lot of pain, or is too exhausted to go a long way.

We have noticed people are split down the middle, some want to help us, but to others we are invisible, they just look anywhere but straight at us, as if wheelchair is something you can catch.

Worse still is the looks from other wheelchair people when my wife gets out of it, like she is a bad person for simply being still able to walk.

I guess this is a preview of the future when she maybe in it more, but this preview shows me who people really are, mostly arseholes.

 

[Phil Collins]

One of the shittiest parts of disability is having to deal with other people's fucked up reactions to just trying to live your life; yeah it's like putting on the sunglasses from They Live with regards to seeing other people for what they are.

 

[CaptainWacky]

I know it's not really the same, but I've noticed some people will just give up trying to talk to me if I take a few seconds longer than normal to reply, but I'm not going to wear a t-shirt reading "I'm autistic" so they'll know. Also I don't really like talking to people so it's not always bad.