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brightlotusmoonYou guys, you guys, Cara's post is going viral in all the right places on Facebook! And Tumblr. And other blog places. Like, holyshit, she's slowly getting famous in disability circles. I love you, Caraboo!
(BTW, Cara is a young woman with spastic cerebral palsy who created a private Facebook group for people with cerebral palsy that has exploded with hundreds of members. I have made so many friends just from there. Cara also supports people with autism, fibromyalgia, depression, anxiety, all sorts of neurodiverse issues, and is generally a fantastic, truly wonderful human.)
http://thatcrazycrippledchick.blogspot.com/2013/12/this-is-what-disability-binarism-looks.html
My additional comment:
Many times, I don't use a cane to walk those twenty minutes to the grocery store or pharmacy. "Oh!" they say. "You don't have your cane! You must be feeling better!" I honestly don't see that as insulting or offensive, just simply confusing. Usually it just means I forgot the cane. I still limp everywhere.
Also, if I, at a height of four-ten, am struggling to reach a product on a high top shelf, and nobody stops to help and I need to hunt someone down to ask for help, it doesn't mean people can ignore me. I'm not creepy am I? Or worse, when there's a tall person right there in the aisle, catching me out of the corner of their eye... did you know there is a huge difference between me with a cane and me without a cane? Help comes much faster with the cane. That still confuses me. I'm still four feet ten inches. I'm still struggling to reach that shelf.
TLDR, still confused over how people react and act to physically disabled people with and without direct use of mobility aids, yada yada.
(BTW, Cara is a young woman with spastic cerebral palsy who created a private Facebook group for people with cerebral palsy that has exploded with hundreds of members. I have made so many friends just from there. Cara also supports people with autism, fibromyalgia, depression, anxiety, all sorts of neurodiverse issues, and is generally a fantastic, truly wonderful human.)
http://thatcrazycrippledchick.blogspot.com/2013/12/this-is-what-disability-binarism-looks.html
My additional comment:
Many times, I don't use a cane to walk those twenty minutes to the grocery store or pharmacy. "Oh!" they say. "You don't have your cane! You must be feeling better!" I honestly don't see that as insulting or offensive, just simply confusing. Usually it just means I forgot the cane. I still limp everywhere.
Also, if I, at a height of four-ten, am struggling to reach a product on a high top shelf, and nobody stops to help and I need to hunt someone down to ask for help, it doesn't mean people can ignore me. I'm not creepy am I? Or worse, when there's a tall person right there in the aisle, catching me out of the corner of their eye... did you know there is a huge difference between me with a cane and me without a cane? Help comes much faster with the cane. That still confuses me. I'm still four feet ten inches. I'm still struggling to reach that shelf.
TLDR, still confused over how people react and act to physically disabled people with and without direct use of mobility aids, yada yada.
