Things Ableds have happily thrown disabled people under the bus for:
Empty boxes
A rack of mugs
A dish cart
One more parking spot
A few more cards
10’ less far to walk
Advertising
Inventory
Shopping carts
Remember folks, the Ableds do not care about you! Literally any excuse will do. :D
This fucking heavy ass hospital door to the rheumatologist office
I had help exiting, but not entering
The last time I had to fight one of those was the door to the disabled bathroom in a hospital.
I had help entering but not exiting. Which means yes, I got stuck in there. Luckily I managed to get it about a foot open and holler for help until someone came and opened it but I injured myself in the process.
A hospital.
Another addition to the list:
Snow
And this after I had to drive from my on-campus apartment to the on-campus library because they didn’t plow the sidewalks well enough for me to navigate them. At. All.
I had to use the road to wheel myself from my apartment to the parking lot, because the road was the only thing properly plowed
Don’t forget trash! I had a job that had a lift that I had to share with the TRASH. (Because an abled bodied person didn’t feel like carrying the bag of trash themselves. When I called the store out on it I was told I was being too unfriendly, unfair, and mean.)
This is so important for abled people to see and start recognizing. Because guess what? Most places don’t listen to disabled people. I have worked on 2 med school campuses. TWO. And do you know the worst offenders of blatantly ignoring disabled people were? The fucking emergency rooms, next was the cafeteria and cafes!
I can’t use stairs if its more than a couple of steps, my knees will give out and now I’m sprawled on the floor. With documentation of this, I was denied access to the elevator in my building during a fire drill. I had a coworker help me the rest of the way down because my left knee refused to support my weight. Someone else that worked in the building who uses a wheel chair was also denied the elevator and when the fire Marshal was doing his sweep, he found her on the 5th floor by herself. Wtf. Only reason I know is because when he was talking to us, I pointed out that I was denied the elevator and he brought that up. Unless the fire is effecting the elevators, they are to stay on during a fire. Period. And there’s multiple elevators through out the building so there was no reason for them all to be off.
At the most recent campus I worked on, I went to the ER for paperwork because of an exposure, and there was someone trapped outside the elevator room because the door was stupid heavy and they had crutches. I was able to get it open and we went up together, I talked to maintenance about it and they got a work order put in.
Or automatic doors that close to fast that dint have sensors!
Or ramp grip/indicators that are large and get caught on wheels.
Or building ramps that are too steep.
Or disabled parking spots without ramps.
Or blocking spots.
Or locking elevators.
Or door threshold for sliding doors being taller than needed.
Or stupid heavy doors.
Or my absolute favorite one, a step at the bottom or top of a ramp.
