Disabilities.
How well do you think people with disabilities are accepted nowadays?
I am a wheelchair user and I think things are getting better for us but we're still not treated the same.
For instance, Alot of people dont talk to me, like, out in public. They'll talk to my parents or even my younger siblings but not me because they think I can't talk. I have a physical disability, so I am automatically labelled with a mental disability.
Another example is on Friday and Saturday nights, you can not book a wheelchair taxi because they're used for able bodied people. What?! Just because I wasn't born with the ability to walk, I won't want to go clubbing or to have a few drinks with my friends? That's ridiculous.
How do you react around a disabled person? Do you or your parents use disabled parking spaces if you dont need them? Do you use lift/elevators when you could easily use the stairs and save a wheelchair user waiting? What're your thoughts?
I am a wheelchair user and I think things are getting better for us but we're still not treated the same.
For instance, Alot of people dont talk to me, like, out in public. They'll talk to my parents or even my younger siblings but not me because they think I can't talk. I have a physical disability, so I am automatically labelled with a mental disability.
Another example is on Friday and Saturday nights, you can not book a wheelchair taxi because they're used for able bodied people. What?! Just because I wasn't born with the ability to walk, I won't want to go clubbing or to have a few drinks with my friends? That's ridiculous.
How do you react around a disabled person? Do you or your parents use disabled parking spaces if you dont need them? Do you use lift/elevators when you could easily use the stairs and save a wheelchair user waiting? What're your thoughts?
I have friends who are disabled; mentally disabled and physically disabled. I see how people react towrds them and it makes me angry that someone who isn't able bodied has to be stared at or treated any differently. The other day, I was in lunch, and there was a mentally retarded senor walking around the walkways outside and some stupid f*cks started telling him to stay away from them because he was a 'spazz'. Stupid f*ckers.
ha_ha_you're_screwed, February 17th, 2007 at 03:32:08pm
It's not two seconds, lazy bugger. -_-
Anneka-Rice, January 26th, 2007 at 12:22:59pm
my cousin is in a wheel chair and she gets treated fine by everyone, my grandparents use the parking spaces which are meant for disablled people, my dad is dissabled and i know other people who are.
I use lifts alot who cares two seconds on waiting isn't going to kill anyone
missand, January 25th, 2007 at 11:50:29am
I reckon that people with disabilities are becoming slowly more accepted and look after, but its still along way from perfect. I treat them just like everyone else as much as possible. I work as a coach and volunteer for Riding For The Disabled, some of the stories i get from parents and carers, especially when they try to start them at school are shocking.
The best bit about my job though is that i get a bunch of kids (and adults) who keep being told that they cant do things, stick them on a horse and help them do everything they can. I like to feel it makes a difference in their lives, which isnt to hard between the huge smiles and the parents comments about how it improves thier confidence and motor skills.
I dont use disabled parking bays but i do use lifts, though i wouldnt make someone in a wheelchair wait for me to use it if there were a choice of stairs. If it were just a lift it depends on the situation. In general some people are a bunch of jerks when it comes to people with disabilites, and the world would be better without them. People with disabilities should keep fighting for their rights and so should everyone else.
Blank_blank, January 22nd, 2007 at 11:09:44pm
I act towards them like they are any other person. I get pissed off when people think just because someone has a problem they have to be condisending and rude, like they are better or something.
One of my teachers acted like that, towards foreign kids too. I just felt like punching her in the face, cause I actually talked to them and knew they understood.
GreenDayCookieFairy, January 22nd, 2007 at 10:11:54pm
That's what pisses me off about a lot of people, how they instantly label people with disabilities like that. They're still human, and they still feel. I treat them no different.
We don't use disabled parking spaces when we don't NEED to, but sometimes we have to because of my grandma. Pretty soon we're gonna need one for my dad, no doubt, so I'd get pretty pissed off if people use disabled spots when they're not needed.
The elevator question is a bit dodgy with me, because I have some height phobias and I get EXTREMELY claustrophobic in elevators. When I can, I like to use stairs, because they're better than elevators and escalators, but if I can see DOWN when I'm walking, I refuse to, I start freaking out and stuff. I kind of... have... to use the elevator, as lame as that sounds...
Funky Platypus, January 22nd, 2007 at 06:10:03pm
A couple of my friends are physically disabled...and it makes me mad when they treat them any different than any other person. I'm sorry for how much you've been through...I have an idea of how you feel. Last summer I had that experience because I couldn't use my one foot at all. They put me in a wheel chair...and people treated me so rudely- it was....I don't know how to describe it. Now, especially when I see someone disabled, I treat them like I would have wanted the other summer. I smile, wave, open a door, let them go before me, and treat them like any other person. It's so amazing how mean people can be these days...it's like they don't even care. Hello?! They have feelings too!! They can be such asses. I hope, for you and so many other's sakes that people realize what they are doing, and make a change for the better. -Katie xx
fresh fruit, January 22nd, 2007 at 05:43:06pm
How do you react around a disabled person?
The same way I react around other people: small smile, maybe a small wave, and then walk away.
Do you or your parents use disabled parking spaces if you dont need them?
Nope. That's just lazy.
Do you use lift/elevators when you could easily use the stairs and save a wheelchair user waiting?
Sometimes. Generally, my family is trying to get healthier, so we use the stairs more. And if we're going on the elevator and there's a wheelchair user waiting, we let them on first.
I think it's really stupid that people treat people with disabilities so horribly. =[
Scotty Doesn't Know., January 22nd, 2007 at 03:47:23pm
My mom works with disabled kids, so I do not treat disabled people any differently.
I do use elevators when I am in a high building, but if I see someone that is in a wheelchair waiting to get on the elevator/lift I will let them on first.
My thoughts are that people are a$s that treat people with disabilites differently. They think that they are superior, but really they are the ones who are lower.
Straight-Up Hustler, January 22nd, 2007 at 03:33:43pm
It's part of the discrimination in society that just irks me.
I personally, feel that it is part of what I said, that people react differently around what they do not understand. They look at you, being in a wheelchair and automatically assume that you're one of the unfortunate autistic cases when really, you just aren't able to walk.
It's just messed up beyond all belief.
I myself, treat those who are disabled exactly as I treat everyone else. I used to have a friend with the same problem, he was born without the ability to walk. We were the best of friends all throughout school. We used to talk about music, life, that kind of thing.
I also had an autistic boyfriend for 2 years. I'll say it's a different experience, but I won't discriminate, I won't make fun of and I won't treat differently.
I don't get out all that much, but I don't like to use handicap spaces and things like that. My parents tend to do it and I tell them I don't like it.
People need to get past those difference and learn to accept others for who they are. Not what they look like, what their abilities are, their IQ, what they like, none of that garbage. People are people, we all have feelings and they can be hurt.
Insurgentes, January 22nd, 2007 at 12:01:21pm
My thoughts are that people who treat those with any form of disability are.... well stupid.
It doesnt make them any less of a person then able- bodied people are.
I act normally, why shouldnt I? The thing that frustrates me, is when my uncle uses my Gran's disabilty sticker so he can use the parking spaces. I take it out of the window so he gets a ticket.
Admittedly, I do use the lifts when I dont have to. Simply because Im lazy and I smoke- which makes me more lazy (lame but oh so true). And in some respects I am selfish but if I can, I'll do what I can to help said person. Meh, it's a double edged sword.
AndTheCowSaidMoo, January 22nd, 2007 at 09:48:19am