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HPLovecraft · 09-13-2009, 04:21 PM

My girlfriend is in a wheelchair (spinal injury, nothing mental), and from my angle, it's what the other guy said, people need to work around them, not the other way around, because there are really so, so, so many situations and everyday things that those with disabilities can't do, and they end up having to 'work around' the able bodied folks to be able to do just about anything. Heck, it can be a difficulty even going up the street if the schmucks doing the sidewalks don't actually make a low enough curb and just assume everybody can just step up over it onto the sidewalk.

I could go into it in detail, and get myself all riled up, but look at it this way... You had to put up with that for 2 hours, at the most. What does that poor soul have to put up with his entire life? One movie where you were disturbed the odd time just doesn't seem that important in the long run. Let him enjoy going to the movies, too.

09-13-2009, 04:21 PM	#6
HPLovecraft Took an arrow to the knee Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Toronto Exp:	My girlfriend is in a wheelchair (spinal injury, nothing mental), and from my angle, it's what the other guy said, people need to work around them, not the other way around, because there are really so, so, so many situations and everyday things that those with disabilities can't do, and they end up having to 'work around' the able bodied folks to be able to do just about anything. Heck, it can be a difficulty even going up the street if the schmucks doing the sidewalks don't actually make a low enough curb and just assume everybody can just step up over it onto the sidewalk. I could go into it in detail, and get myself all riled up, but look at it this way... You had to put up with that for 2 hours, at the most. What does that poor soul have to put up with his entire life? One movie where you were disturbed the odd time just doesn't seem that important in the long run. Let him enjoy going to the movies, too. __________________ "An adherent of homeopathy has no brain. They have skull water with the memory of a brain."