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Beautiful post, Crow Jane. I like how he's missing one leg but is still wearing "boots." 
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Nyarai posted:Beautiful post, Crow Jane. We carries the second one, because he's a hero. Something something freedom.
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Jun 7, 2015 16:11
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My Lovely Horse posted:Remember, when you see someone in a wheelchair, make sure you push them where you think they need to go against their express wishes, and let them know in any way you can think of that you don't think they can live their own life. ASK ME ABOUT MY LOVELY HORSES
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Jun 7, 2015 16:24
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Maybe I'm just wrong about etiquette, but I always thought that going up to someone in a wheelchair and insisting on pushing them is incredibly rude and condescending.
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Jun 7, 2015 16:33
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Twitch posted:Maybe I'm just wrong about etiquette, but I always thought that going up to someone in a wheelchair and insisting on pushing them is incredibly rude and condescending. I think there's a moral obligation on people to help people with disabilities WHO NEED HELP. To just go up to them and treat them as incapable babies is incredibly rude.
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Jun 7, 2015 16:49
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Non Serviam posted:I think there's a moral obligation on people to help people with disabilities WHO NEED HELP. To just go up to them and treat them as incapable babies is incredibly rude. That and pushing them against their will is technically kidnapping. If it were me and someone tried to remove my agency like that, I'd be screaming at the top of my lungs for someone to call the police while trying to engage the wheel brakes.
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Jun 7, 2015 16:51
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flosofl posted:If it were me and someone tried to remove my agency like that, I'd be screaming at the top of my lungs for someone to call the police while trying to engage the wheel brakes. Seriously Cute little disabled person! Let's go for a strolly-car ride, aren't you so grateful I came along to chaperone you
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Jun 7, 2015 18:23
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I really, REALLY want to believe that whoever wrote that drivel knew exactly what they were doing and wrote it to be as outrageously STDH as possible, because the alternative is just too depressing.
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Jun 7, 2015 19:12
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Twitch posted:Maybe I'm just wrong about etiquette, but I always thought that going up to someone in a wheelchair and insisting on pushing them is incredibly rude and condescending.
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Jun 7, 2015 19:23
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Twitch posted:Maybe I'm just wrong about etiquette, but I always thought that going up to someone in a wheelchair and insisting on pushing them is incredibly rude and condescending. I'm not in a wheelchair yet, but it 100% is. If us cripple-folk don't ask for help, don't give it. It's pretty simple.
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Jun 7, 2015 21:26
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Deciding to up and wheel someone in a chair away is akin to slinging an able bodied person over your shoulder and strolling off with them to where you think they should be going.
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Jun 7, 2015 21:46
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Desert Bus posted:I'm not in a wheelchair yet, but it 100% is. If us cripple-folk don't ask for help, don't give it. It's pretty simple. I think that people who write the stdhs (and people who act like that IRL) actually believe that you are just too shy, embarassed, and meek to ask for help and that they are doing the ultimate good by doing the unasked for. So giving, so selfless! moerketid posted:Deciding to up and wheel someone in a chair away is akin to slinging an able bodied person over your shoulder and strolling off with them to where you think they should be going. Somebody write this stdh NOW
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Jun 7, 2015 21:47
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If people weren't supposed to push the chair then it wouldn't have handles.
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Jun 7, 2015 22:01
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Jesus, I mean can you believe that one of those people acted civilly?
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Jun 7, 2015 22:28
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Desert Bus posted:I'm not in a wheelchair yet, but it 100% is. If us cripple-folk don't ask for help, don't give it. It's pretty simple. If I end up in a wheelchair and someone ever does it to me, I'm just gonna start screaming 'help, I'm being kidnapped'
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Jun 7, 2015 22:52
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sweeperbravo posted:I think that people who write the stdhs (and people who act like that IRL) actually believe that you are just too shy, embarassed, and meek to ask for help and that they are doing the ultimate good by doing the unasked for. So giving, so selfless!
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Jun 7, 2015 23:26
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Tendai posted:This is true for just about any obvious disability. I'm a dwarf and I've had to tell people to back off and if I need help I'll ask it, in places like supermarkets and poo poo where people were just following me around hovering. It's loving bizarre. (I can't resist and I know I'm going to hell) They just want your pot of gold.
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Jun 8, 2015 01:10
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Tendai posted:This is true for just about any obvious disability. I'm a dwarf and I've had to tell people to back off and if I need help I'll ask it, in places like supermarkets and poo poo where people were just following me around hovering. It's loving bizarre. If they want so badly to feel good about contributing to society they can go help at a soup kitchen I guess it comes down to people who don't want to help in a selfless way but want to do it so they can
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Jun 8, 2015 02:14
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sweeperbravo posted:If they want so badly to feel good about contributing to society they can go help at a soup kitchen Man, the most I've done for them poor brave handicapped souls was flag down the train station guy with the ramp because he went to the carriage next to us on accident and the guy who needed it was staring at the train guy and trying/failing to get his attention. In the time it took me to step out and wave him down two people grabbed the back of his chair and offered to push him. Other than that, nothing ever. Turns out people with handicaps are extremely loving capable and don't go about their day relying on strangers to help them do every little thing, and already have plans to utilise services things like calling ahead to the station theyre travelling to to make sure there's a ramp for them. Also I didn't tell all my friends because "flagged down idiot train guy" is more a lovely story about cityrail being terrible, and everyone knows that already. And I'm a goon, so I have no friends to tell about my heroically selfless acts.
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Jun 8, 2015 02:45
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Tendai posted:This is true for just about any obvious disability. I'm a dwarf and I've had to tell people to back off and if I need help I'll ask it, in places like supermarkets and poo poo where people were just following me around hovering. It's loving bizarre. flosofl posted:They just want your pot of gold. What the gently caress dude. Leprechauns have pots of gold, dwarves give you magic rings.
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Jun 8, 2015 04:06
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sweeperbravo posted:"It's so heroic the way you followed that wheelchair guy into the bathroom stall to help him wipe his rear end, he must have felt so honored and blessed" This happened to me. I was in a chair for a few months following an accident, and when I was still trying to get the hang of navigating, I wedged myself in the corner of a public restroom's doorway. A lady exiting found me halfway through a thousand point turn to free myself grabbed my wheel and pulled me loose before I had a chance to ask, which was nice of her. What was less nice was her following me back into the restroom cooing about how "brave" I was, and volunteering to help me with "anything. I really don't mind. anything you need" while I backed into the stall as fast as I could to make her leave. And no, I was not in the chair as a result of anything approaching bravery
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Jun 8, 2015 04:12
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I like how after the whole love letter to himself ("look at me helping wheelchair widower vet") there was just a gratuitous slam on Caitlyn Jenner. Because the mere existence of a pop culture celebrity hurts ARE VETS 
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Jun 8, 2015 04:12
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Huntersoninski posted:This happened to me. I was in a chair for a few months following an accident, and when I was still trying to get the hang of navigating, I wedged myself in the corner of a public restroom's doorway. A lady exiting found me halfway through a thousand point turn to free myself grabbed my wheel and pulled me loose before I had a chance to ask, which was nice of her.  Jesus Christ
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Jun 8, 2015 04:18
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Some more gold from Reddit's "TIFU" forum (should be called Today poo poo Didn't Happen). Seriously, how dumb are people that they believe this stuff? Bonus points for the neverending edits.http://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/38xoxy/tifu_by_not_reading_the_yearbook_signatures/ posted:When I was in 10th grade, I had a really close friend who was a girl, I was head over heels for this girl, would hang out non-stop, text non-stop, and all around I wanted to date her more than anything at the time. I also had no testicles at the time, and never had the courage to ask her. at the end of 10th grade, we had these yearbooks, and the custom was to get people to sign it, and they would leave stuff like "have a great summer", "nice to have known you" etc. When I asked her to sign it, she put in the following. Yeah good luck explaining this to your
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Huntersoninski posted:This happened to me. I was in a chair for a few months following an accident, and when I was still trying to get the hang of navigating, I wedged myself in the corner of a public restroom's doorway. A lady exiting found me halfway through a thousand point turn to free myself grabbed my wheel and pulled me loose before I had a chance to ask, which was nice of her. Sounds like she was just a sex offender looking for a mark.
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Jun 8, 2015 07:11
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:What the gently caress dude. Leprechauns have pots of gold, dwarves give you magic rings. Dwarves give you mithril shirts. When I have to use a chair, I try to get the store's zippy cart--the little scooter things. That way I control my destiny. The other kind leaves you vulnerable to people wanting to 'help'. There's a special place in Hell for the people who think those things are Disney rides to gently caress around with. Thanks for draining the battery, prickhead.
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Jun 8, 2015 07:44
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Drunk Tomato posted:Some more gold from Reddit's "TIFU" forum (should be called Today poo poo Didn't Happen). Seriously, how dumb are people that they believe this stuff? Bonus points for the neverending edits. Imo they eat that poo poo up because they want to believe it so hard. They too want to believe that if they call the girl they loved but never dared to speak to she would cry for hours on end for no clear reason. Reddit and imgur loving love stories that go with their beliefs of "I'm actually a cool dude", "everyone but me is an idiot" and "man, look at women and blacks thinking they are real people"
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Drunk Tomato posted:Some more gold from Reddit's "TIFU" forum (should be called Today poo poo Didn't Happen). Seriously, how dumb are people that they believe this stuff? Bonus points for the neverending edits. The most thing that didn't happen is that he had the girl he was obsessed with sign his yearbook and didn't read what she wrote immediately when she handed it back to him. Come on now that's elementary.
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Jun 8, 2015 12:15
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I think my favorite thing about the yearbook story is that he acts like yearbooks are this weird thing that no one's heard of because signing them was just this crazy tradition they had at his school and nowhere else.
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Jun 8, 2015 12:43
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sweeperbravo posted:The most thing that didn't happen is that he had the girl he was obsessed with sign his yearbook and didn't read what she wrote immediately when she handed it back to him. Come on now that's elementary. Who doesn't read every single thing written on their yearbook obsessively, especially if written by a cute boy/girl?
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Jun 8, 2015 12:43
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ElGroucho posted:Who doesn't read every single thing written on their yearbook obsessively, especially if written by a cute boy/girl? Cool guys walk away from
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Jun 8, 2015 13:18
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I should meet up with this person that cried for 9 hours straight.
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Please conduct your nearest medical professional if you have a crying fit lasting more than 4 hours
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She didn't cry for 9 hours. She waited for him to call her for the entire day and then cried herself to sleep when he didn't. Also this happened when she was 15 or whatever 10th grade is. Honestly I could see this one actually happening. e: Or maybe not. I didn't realize 10th grade was high school and like all of my girl friends that I was close with who signed my yearbook wrote like entire paragraphs. Boris Galerkin has a new favorite as of 17:05 on Jun 8, 2015 |
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Boris Galerkin posted:She didn't cry for 9 hours. She waited for him to call her for the entire day and then cried herself to sleep when he didn't. Also this happened when she was 15 or whatever 10th grade is. Honestly I could see this one actually happening.
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We had this wacky custom at my school where you would ask a girl to a dance, and then take pictures with her Unfortunately, I didn't know then how to dance, so I just stood there, awkwardly bouncing Years later, I bumped in to my date at a Starbucks - turns out, she thought I was the sexiest dancer ever We are married now and have 7 kids
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Jun 8, 2015 17:17
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Evelyn Nesbit posted:I think my favorite thing about the yearbook story is that he acts like yearbooks are this weird thing that no one's heard of because signing them was just this crazy tradition they had at his school and nowhere else. We got our yearbooks after graduation. So no time to sign them. My school did not have its poo poo together.
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Tunicate posted:We got our yearbooks after graduation. I'm sorry. That's sad. And hilarious. Sadlarious
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