If any of you ever decide you want to see, in a vivid and exaggerated way, what it looks like when people scramble to meet your needs - go out in public on crutches. 🤣
Sprinting to open doors for me, giving me all the space I could use, standing back to let me go by. Apologizing profusely if they interfere with my progress in any way. I found it very funny, in a nice kind of way.
@ScottSoCal @actuallyautistic It's not better tbh, it's just a ableism from a different angle. when I'm out in my wheelchair people can't see anything else, talk to whoever's with me instead of directly to me, actively get in my way in attempts to "help", grab and try to push me without permission...
@ScottSoCal @actuallyautistic I use a rollator walker in the outside world. Usually people just stand there staring and watch me struggle to open doors. I always appreciate it when someone holds a door open for me.
Back when I could walk a grocery store with it, people would just intensely stare at me. Especially able bodied old people. I got a lot of questions like “are you okay?? What happened to you??” I’d just stare at them and say nothing, or laugh, and walk off.
@ScottSoCal @actuallyautistic
When I fractured my knee and was in a brace for six months, a lot of random people were very kind. Now that I’m officially disabled with invisible disabilities, not so much.
@ScottSoCal @actuallyautistic doesn't carry over into needing a cane afaik.
@ScottSoCal @actuallyautistic
During a single month in 2019 I saw that while on a wheelchair. It didn't soften my disgust at not having any accomodations EVER for whatever's broken in my brain.