Adventures of being a cripple - Page 2

I think it's ok to hold the door open for people, but not cripples.

... Or hold it open for them like you would for anyone else, but not because they're incapable of opening it without you. And be sure to pat them on the head for being so brave.

I'll do it like I would for my friends. I pull the door shut behind me. Sometimes they run into the door if I time it just right.

I hold the doors open for all kind of people, I work at being overly polite. Having cerebral palsy, when I was a child I use to get the whole petty thing, and I understand the anger.Growing up the petty people I hated most were teachers. So I use to take great joy in show the class how stupid they were. I also use to move about every year. So, I had to beat the crap out of every bully at each new school. By the time I was full grown I was so big, strong, and look like kind of a neanderthal, I guess, I don't get it much any more. Now a days well it not that bad, because I can walk, run, ride a bike, and look like a neanderthal. The problem is I am so athletic it hard for people to understand how bad my CP really is. I was never suppose to walk, and I came close to dieing a child because of it. I did not die, because my parents were smart, and thought out side of the Box. If I did not have cerebral palsy I would have probable have been and star athlete gold medalist or something. On the other hand the cerebral palsy made me what I am to day, and I not sure would want to be someone else. On the other hand I have hyper flexibility, and hyper Flexibility and cerebral palsy don't mix. I live in a world of pain, and I am deathly allergic Narcotic.

I only hold doors open for people who I plan to have sex with. So if I hold a door open for you, eventually you're going to behold the fuck thunder. That goes double for Chewers regardless of gender.

I suppose I have to seriously rethink my "Hold the door open for anyone." policy now. To think I've been wrong about such a thing for so long is just emotionally crippling.

Fuck me, and the shitty attitude I rode in on....

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dude you're doing it again.

I promised myself I wouldn't cry!

Wow Cameron, I admire your self control, You have much more patience than I.
At the time when they said "He's a little confused" I'd likely be yelling at them "Are you serious? My legs don't work, my BRAIN IS FINE! You people are the ones who are confused." Like shit, that's the kind of stuff they should be fired for.

I hold revolving doors open for black cripples because of my guilt. And Office Space.

I would go out of my way to hold a door on the assumption that it's probably a pain in the ass to try to manuever a wheelchair through something designed for people on two legs.

But I do get the annoyance - I deliver beer and probably about 70% of the time, people trying to "help" just fuck up your shit - "No, thank you, I'VE GOT IT."

Wow.

That story actually almost makes me wish I believed in hell.

Fuck that nasty little skanknozzle.

What the fuck? I swear there are some people around that literally must have been raised by animals.

People actually act like that?!

Seriously.

Sadly, I think I would have reacted similar to Cameron. It's just not in my nature to verbally rip someone to shreds.

If she's not already, very soon she'll most likely be quickly dieing of a horrible combination of painful STD's. I say this to give comfort.

I *knew* you were running a scam here.

Actually, ever since the ADA passed, theme parks had to make their queues fully wheelchair accessible. We caught all kinds of hell at Universal when we started making wheelchairs go through the lines instead of taking them to the front. The sense of entitlement we sometimes ran into was enormous. "We want to be treated the same as anyone else, unless there's a perk in it for us."

Now, we made exceptions for wheelchairs that were too large to safely navigate the line, or if the person had a condition that made it unsafe for them to do so (couldn't be in the sun/heat, couldn't be around crowds, etc), but, at least at Universal's Orlando parks, the wheelchair is no longer the free ticket to cut the line it once was. Much to the disappointment of the fuckers who have nothing wrong with them but rent a wheelchair to try to skip the queues.

That chick sounds like a shitbag. I hope she gets hit by a car, ends up wheelchair-bound, and has waking nightmares of what she said to you every single day of the rest of her life.

Sorry, in a bad mood, projecting!

That horrible bookstore experience sounds like something out of the first act of a bad superhero movie. I fully expect you to come across an alien exosuit this week.

You have to be kidding. Really.

That is awful, Cameron Hughes, I'm sorry you had to deal with a person like that. I would never support emotional cruelty towards the handicapped (if this is not the phrase you prefer, no offense was intended, CH) or anyone else for that matter if you're picking on them for a condition they have no control over. That is just wrong

EDIT: I guess I have been through something similar before, my mom always mocks me for typing loudly which I can't avoid because of the nerve damage in my hands

I wish I was. I used to see entire families who would rent the electric scooters just so they could zip around the park being assholes and try to scam their way to the front of the lines. Every single one of them could walk with no problems. Meanwhile, that's four ECVs that weren't available to people who actually needed them for legitimate medical reasons.

I'd also see groups of kids who would rent a wheelchair, and every time you saw them, a different kid was sitting in it.

Of course, the ADA makes it a violation to ask someone what their disability is, so there's no real way to stop someone who doesn't need a wheelchair from renting one. You just have to trust in people not being jerks. And good luck with that.

Cameron,
I think people who would rent a wheel chair in order to get special services at Disneyland would just lie if asked. I used to fake a need for a wheel chair when I went skiing, but it was just as a joke and not a scam in order to get free stuff, plus I was a teenager. I have no patience for those who would suck up services for handicapped people just because they're lazy. Sadly such deranged fiends no doubt would resort to falsehoods if confronted about their unethical actions

PS RE: The chance people from Cameron's tale were raised by animals

Unlikely. Genuine cases of feral children are few and far between, and such a condition usually leads the individual to be violent and uncommunicative. It would not necessarily instill any predilection for cruelty towards to the diabled. Apart from famous incidents such as the one that resulted in the founding of Rome, kids who spent their early years removed from human contact grow up to be hopelessly incapable of leading productive adult lives

at which point is it politically incorrect to dump suspected fake-cripples out of their chairs like they were Lebowski

It's okay Cam, she's an excellent driver, just let her get to K-Mart.

See guys? I TOLD you. Definitely not feral kids. Thanks for clearing that up Kate, stellar research.

Pfft, werewolves only live in forests silly.

Given enough time you learn to ignore people like this, either that or I have such a Neanderthal look, kind of like Ron Perelman, but better looking, I just scare off most people.

Reading the bookstore story, I'm not sure why but I'm almost more upset at the people with the ringleader bitch than with her. I mean, I've said some ridiculously regrettable stuff when I was younger and drunk. I can't remember a single time that I did that when my friends that were with me didn't call me out on it immediately and make me feel like the horse's ass that I'd behaved like in front of everybody. It sounds like she travels in a black hole that common decency can't penetrate though.

I have a friend in a wheelchair and he tells me the most hilarious and insane stories. He can't help but have a sense of humor about his condition.

One of my favorite stories involved him at a really busy bar. Some strange guy comes out of nowhere, leans down to my friend's ear and says: "Next time I fuck your mom, I am going to break her arm." He proceeded to walk away and disappear like Batman or something. My friend's jaw just dropped and he sat there in shock. He never saw him again. I don't know if that has anything to do with him being in a wheelchair, nor if that is a line from some flick or something, but it was bizarre. Clearly, he was singled out for his condition - yet what it has to do with his condition is beyond us.

Regardless, we have fun when we hang out. I love giving him shit about being in a wheelchair around other people that don't know he or I too well. These people will pull me aside and tell me to "cool it or there will be trouble".

Or as mentioned by another poster, he will go to the mall and intentionally run into people. They will hop aside and profusely apologize. My friend will wheel away and just call these people morons.

I can say that I have definitely learned something though. I hold the door for anyone just to be polite. It never struck me that a seemingly nice gesture could be misconstrued as degrading. I will definitely ask a disabled individual if they need help from now on. Very good to know.

Someone's gonna show up and post some shit about how it's unfair that handicapped people can only call each other "cripple", just wait

I'm also the bleeding-heart weiner who kinda groaned to myself when I first saw your e-mail address, even if I totally get it now.

Can we use cr*pple?

I fail Cameron. Sorry again!

Something something dongcock.

This is crazy. Just the other week I helped an old man in a wheel chair through some heavy double doors. He thanked me. Are you trying to tell me I was somehow in the wrong?