(April 12, 2018 at 11:30 am)KevinM1 Wrote: On here? Not really. IRL? My disability definitely plays a role. I don't really mind the staring, or, even better, obvious attempts not to stare. What pisses me off is the assumption that because I'm in an electric wheelchair, I must also have a mental disability, or are otherwise slow/dumb/overly sheltered/etc. So, the people who bend down to get at my level, and then speak slowly and loudly while employing one-to-two syllable words? They can fuck right off.
This gets my goat too.
I used to work with non-verbal disabled adults.
Sure, it took time to learn different communication methods.
Often I would lead trips in the community, i estimate 80-90% of the strangers would ask me, as a carer, questions rather than address my friends.
i can't tell you how much that pisses me off.
Assumptions about disabilities really annoy me.
I am bi-polar, every new doctor i see has asked me how times i have been in trouble with the law.
guess what, bi-polar, but never, actually very moral, even when manic. Just an over-spending opinionated arsehole at those times.
