Why Are You Questioning My Need for a Wheelchair?

[davidgillon]

Really good Huff Post piece on how normies make it difficult for wheelchair users with invisible disabilities. Rings absolutely true.

(And another Bendy speaking out, pro rata we must be one of the most published disability sub-groups!)

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Indeed, I adore this sentence:

There are many reasons why a person uses a wheelchair, but the biggest thing to remember is this: if you do not know the person then why they use a wheelchair is none of your business.

Hmm, there do seem to be many excellent EDS-affected writers. Has something changed in the diagnostic weather so that we're hearing more about it?

[davidgillon]

why they use a wheelchair is none of your business.

Yeah, love it!

I think EDS is generally becoming better known, and there are a bunch of us who happened to coalesce on the BBC Ouch Forums a few years ago, which was an excellent training ground from which several of us have gone on to write in various locations - often with a bit of mutual encouragement, I was dragged into my own writing for Where's the Benefit that way. But there are a whole bunch of other writers such as the author of this piece who've emerged from the woodwork without contact with the rest of us (though it's always possible there's the encouragement effect of 'well, if they can do it').