Oct 1, 2017
Having spoken to a range of disabled people, Raya AlJadir rounds-up the 10 things people definitely shouldn’t do when meeting someone with a disability – you’ll probably recognise a lot of these!
I have had exactly all 10 of these things happen to me, and... I was extremely uncomfortable each and every time. My favorite was a lady who stood on an automatic door opener so I could go through the door. There was no room to go through the door because she was standing on the automatic mat. She then explained (very slowly) to me that she was holding the door open for me, as if I was mentally off as well. Still I smiled because she was trying to help but really...?!!