We are called AMBULATORY wheelchair users. It makes my life easier to use a wheelchair in certain situations. As @rollwithru says, it’s 2023 for goodness sake! Get with the programme!
2023 reminder that a lot of wheelchair users can WALK!
i don’t know how people are still ignorant of this fact and at the point it feels wilful
we are not faking if you see us use a wheelchair one day and not the next. it’s not that hard to grasp! 👩🦽
Here’s my payslip as a first year doctor in 2005, next to a first year doctor colleague’s in 2023. 18 years later, their take home salary is less than mine was. I lived for free in hospital accommodation and had a fraction of their student loan.
#JuniorDoctorsStrike
@5h311m4n @bardoliaseth@plasticmartyr Which is what she IS. She’s adult, she’s human and she’s female. Consider yourself educated right back my friend 😘
@bardoliaseth@plasticmartyr She isn’t “trying” to be a woman, she is succeeding at being a woman because she IS a woman. Educate yourself with papers written by ppl with PhD’s, research the scans of trans peoples brains that don’t match up to the physical gender of the body but match with their identity
@RobJonesME @rollwithru I wish nobody had to feel this feeling either. On the rare occasion I go somewhere where no one knows me it’s bliss because I don’t care about the judgement then. It’s very freeing but at the same time I wish every outing could be like that. I guess we have to learn to ignore it!
@RobJonesME @rollwithru I live in a small rural town too, and I always worry when I don’t need my stick/walker that people will think I’m faking. It’s so damaging to mental health, esp when we’ve got so much else to worry about to do with our illnesses. I try not to worry what others think but it’s hard
@SharonStevend@rollwithru You have my sympathy, I have osteoarthritis too, but not severe (yet… that will come) I’m hopeful that using mobility aids when I need them will help to keep it at bay for the foreseeable. I’m only 36, hopefully I have a lot of years left in me yet.