Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!bunker!hcap!hnews!290!5!Dan.Payne
From: Dan.Payne@f5.n290.z1.fidonet.org (Dan Payne)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Terminology, cont.
Message-ID: <13855@bunker.UUCP>
Date: 4 Sep 90 18:32:25 GMT
Sender: wtm@bunker.UUCP
Reply-To: Dan.Payne@f5.n290.z1.fidonet.org
Distribution: misc
Organization: FidoNet node 1:290/5
Lines: 25
Approved: wtm@bunker.UUCP

Index Number: 10115

 
 AB>Any comments anybody? 
 AB>  
 AB>Take it easy....but take it! 
 AB>     
HERE HERE...pardon the indelicacy, but very few things p*ss me off more than
(well intentioned) prople that feel that just because I have to use a wheelchair
for distance travel, that I am incapable of opening a door for myself or that
I HAVE to be pushed everywhere...yes, it's well intentioned, yes they are trying
to be considerate, but why can't they wait untill you ask for help instead of
making you feel helpless.... I lost my temper at school last quarter when a
kid just walked up behind me and started pushing my chair for me...didn't say
anything untill he had pushed me about ten feet.....I hit the brakes, got out
of the chair and told him I could do it myself......(he almost fainted when
I got out of the chair!!!).... 
 
later 
 
dan 

--
Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!290!5!Dan.Payne
Internet: Dan.Payne@f5.n290.z1.fidonet.org