ext_4975 ([identity profile] wiredferret.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] rivka 2004-07-26 12:51 pm (UTC)

Offering help to the disabled

I find this especially interesting, because although we don't think about it much that way, we grew up with someone who has a disability.

Our dad is pretty firm about not self-defining as disabled, but he is. He has always done poorly at standing. He can't really jump, or stand on one leg. In my memory, he has spent significant time on crutches.

But because it's a mostly-invisible disability, he manages to deflect all inquiries. Still, both of us know how to help a person larger than us out of a chair, and do it automatically. We evaluate walking surfaces at a subconscious level. Just a dozen little coping things that never really got explained, or talked about.

Post a comment in response:

This account has disabled anonymous posting.
If you don't have an account you can create one now.
HTML doesn't work in the subject.
More info about formatting