in honour of disability pride month in july!
- you’re blind and we keep running into each other everywhere and eventually i realise it’s because your service dog is obsessed with me but you love it too much to take it to be retrained so now you just stay near me so your dog doesn’t get distracted looking for me… and now i’m slowly becoming obsessed with you
- i’m fluent in sign language and you are not, but after meeting someone important to me who’s deaf, you quietly start learning so conversations get easier for you
- you’re a wheelchair user and i use a walking aid but there’s only one accessible apartment and we both need it so now we’re trying to find a solution that isn’t ‘let’s move in together, stranger’
- i have an autoimmune disease and everyone sees me on my good days and assumes im fine, but you’re one of the first people to the bad days too, but you never make me feel guilty about them, so.. thanks
- we’re teammates on the wheelchair basketball team but we’re also absurdly competitive and every practice is a battle
- i’m a museum guide and you’re a frequent visitor who has trouble walking, and after noticing your accessibility issues, we work together to improve your experience as well as everyone else’s
- you have mobility impairments so i’m assigned to share lecture notes with you, which then turns to study sessions, coffee runs, and spending far too much time together
- i have a chronic pain condition, so people assume im constantly rude, lazy, dramatic, or antisocial, but you’re the first person who just asks questions instead of making mean assumptions
- we’re both recovering from recent injuries where i have fractured and broken bones and you have dislocations and neither of us wants to be in physical therapy but now we’re becoming friends
- i have severe walking difficulties and you are a wheelchair user and an airport assistance oversight has left us navigating our own way with delays and cancellations as the cherry on top
- i’m an accessibility consultant hired to improve accessibility and you’re a deaf employee who’s convinced that hiring me will change nothing, but you’re slowly realising that i’m actually good at my job
- i’m blind and use a guide cane and you literally walk into me because you’re looking at your phone and i am not amused, so you spend next the week trying to apologise
- i’ve known your family for years and somehow nobody thought to mention how attractive your deaf sibling is and now i’m trying not to make a fool of myself
- i have physical limitations and everyone on the trip is worried that it’ll be difficult because of my accessibility needs but the actual difficult part is spending 10 hours a day trapped in a metal box with you
- you’re the blind employee who’s always ordering books in braille and i’m the employee who keeps helping by buying books in more accessible formats, and eventually we’re recommending books to each other more than doing our jobs
- we’re competing for a spot in the same national paralympic team and i didn’t expect my biggest competition to become my favourite person
- i get blood sugar drops/seizures/fainting spells a lot and you have ptsd so we tend to see each other in the lift of our apartment building a lot. except that said lift breaks ALL THE TIME and we’re super pissed off and now we’re working together to campaign against the landlord
- i’m autistic and you’re hard of hearing and we became online friends years ago and when we finally meet in person, we’re both self conscious about the things that we accepted about each other long ago
- i volunteer at a rehabilitation centre that you’re at after your dual sensory loss and becoming deafblind and you’re convinced i’m only there because i feel sorry for people but you couldn’t be more wrong
- i have visual impairments and everyone either ignores my needs or tries to take over and you’re the first person who asks what would be helpful and now im falling for you
