Losing your mobility is like losing a handle bar you've been holding on your hole life. It slips from your grip. And you are left floundering, falling to the ground. Knees scraping the pavement l, not sure if you can stand back up. Sometimes you can't, so you transfer to wheels and roll onward.
That's part of the reason we clutch so hard to representation in media. Why I personally found solace as my legs started to give out, knees started to spasm, as I adjusted to life in a wheelchair, in Barbara Gordon. A character who is liked since I was a child. She was Batgirl to be back than, she kicked ass at night and no one knew. But later she became almost like a lifeline to me.
This character who let me accept that things might not be the same amd that was okay. But I began to realize the way DC treated her was wrong, throwing a magic cure at her. Hiring mostly people who has no idea how to draw a wheelchair. Not only that it reflected how disabled people are treated on a daily basis. Told that prayer will fix us, to take vitamins, etc.
So here is something to think about. I found so much strength in Oracle, in Babs finding herself again and seeing his powerful she could still be. That she could still be a hero. Because disability does not make you any less human.
