(April 13, 2018 at 2:30 pm)JackRussell Wrote:(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.
Yeah, it's definitely worse when it comes from supposed professionals. Like, I can sort of give the general populace a pass for their unfounded assumptions. Doesn't mean it doesn't piss me off, but I can at least attribute it to ignorance and/or a lack of exposure to someone that looks like me. Or, perhaps, exposure via a specific person in their lives, and they then paint everyone similar with the same brush.
But the people who are trained and paid to deal with the disabled? It's complete bullshit, and I don't tolerate it.
