#mobility aid users

[crazycatsiren]

The wheelchair spots on public transportations are for wheelchairs, the end. They are not storage spots. Not for strollers, bicycles, luggage, pets, fuck all.

Every time I used public transportation with rollator, I folded her and stored her where I could fit her without damaging her, and not in the wheelchair spaces.

If there's a wheelchair user who needs to use that space, unless you're a wheelchair user who's there first, then fucking move, and move your shit out of there.

I'm so damned tired.

[the-angry-acrobat]

they hate when you serve disabled person using their mobility aid

[nd-babblinggoblinfromthevoid]

Question!

So, if denied mobility aids through insurance, what are other ways/routes everyone takes to acquire them? (Or do you just go without?!)

Thank you!

[crazycatsiren]

"Imagine if someone who needs a wheelchair have to crawl on the ground..."

It happens all the time, my sibling in Christ. Do you know how much wheelchairs cost? How unwilling insurance companies are to pay for them? How many disabled people who need wheelchairs don't have them, because they can't afford them and they don't have access to good doctors who'll prescribe them to be covered by insurance? It happens all the time!

[crazycatsiren]

As a former public educator, I've known more than a few parents with disabled children in my lifetime. Some of them have very severely disabled children who have been immobile since birth.

And you know what?

They aren't the entitled parents who think the whole world should revolve around them just because they have children.

The ones who insist on taking up every available space possible out in public, including all the accessible ones that are meant for disabled people, with their fucking strollers as big as the vans and SUVs they drive, and gods forbid if they're asked to wait their turns, aren't the ones who have disabled kids.

Because the ones who have disabled kids know how much it fucking sucks on a daily basis to navigate a world that's full of entitled parents who don't know what it's like to have disabled kids.

Stop making excuses for entitled people who think they own the world.

And stop using disabled children and their caregivers as excuses for entitlement and ableism.

Fuck your whataboutism because you care way more about actually privileged people than disabled people.

Fuck's sakes.

Fuck off.

And leave my disabled friends alone.

[crazycatsiren]

What if this, what if that.

What if wheelchair users are treated as priorities instead of afterthoughts.

What if wheelchair users are respected as human beings who deserve being able to go out in public without a hard time.

What if this world doesn't hate wheelchair users, and what if more people who aren't physically disabled or who aren't wheelchair users actually care about wheelchair users for once.

I don't even care if you're physically disabled or visibly disabled or whatnot, if you're a dickbag to wheelchair users. Because you're not on disabled people's side, you're way more concerned about making non-disabled people like you.

[crazycatsiren]

We're half way into 2023 and I'm begging parents to teach your children about disabled people so they don't go up to a stranger who's a disabled cane user in a store and say "why do you have a cane? You're not even old!" loud enough for all to hear.

[crazycatsiren]

"But what if multiple disabled people all require the same accessible spots?"

First come, first serve, and we wait our turns, like civil human beings. Sometimes those of us with plenty of time to spare will trade places with those on a time crunch. As a mobility aid user who's traveled frequently, I know this.

The disabled travelers who reserve airport mobility assistance ahead of time and arrive earlier get first dibs. The ones who didn't book ahead, or arrive later, get to wait for the next round. No complaints.

More often than not, the people who are entitled to accessibility services and accommodations aren't the entitled ones.

It's those who don't need them who tend to think the world owes them.