Edited by CyborgCentaur, 30 January 2012 - 05:49 AM.
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Stuff People Say To The Disabled
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Posted 31 January 2012 - 08:40 PM
I've had people that after I tell them what happened will still ask me (Are you OK?)really? I just like to push myself around and get the good parking spot...hahaha
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Posted 31 January 2012 - 08:47 PM
i think ive heard everyone of those except the one about being a good looking
tell me its impossible & i will show you how its done
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Posted 01 February 2012 - 01:08 AM
how about "slow down you're going to get a ticket". all the old men love to say that.
hi fellow gimps! i'm a c 6/7 quad and have been injured since 1986. i was in a roll over hydroplane accident and it took hours for the paramedics to get me out of the car in the pouring rain. that definately wasn't my day. but alas life goes on!
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Posted 01 February 2012 - 04:20 AM
O man the slow down one is a constant, how about when i am going into a store with my service dog, and they ask (Is that a service dog?)NO I'm the service human for the dog, he's blind. I remember once a wallMart employee went and tried to grab me to slow down.
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Posted 01 February 2012 - 04:11 PM
most of them are pretty common,
I'm always getting told to slow down when with folk!
and when at the pubs alot of people ask if I can get done for drink driving in a wheel chair, is it possible i wonder? bound to be some cops who are complete and utter twats out there?!
I'm always getting told to slow down when with folk!
and when at the pubs alot of people ask if I can get done for drink driving in a wheel chair, is it possible i wonder? bound to be some cops who are complete and utter twats out there?!
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Posted 01 February 2012 - 10:37 PM
That was a great clip. It may not have gotten in all the inane or insensitive things in,,, but it certainly illustrates the mindset of MOST ABs. For some reason they can't not say something. Must be in the genetic make up. Even the one who you later get to know,, and find to be pretty smart,,, they started this way. Strange world.
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Posted 01 February 2012 - 11:12 PM
As an AB person i can't believe how much that video made me cringe. Although have to say i'm probably guilty the doors thing, but i've always done that to people pushing prams as well as holding doors open for other people, but then i've always considered it common courtesy.
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