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Originally Posted by Sliver
Yeah I hear you for sure. That's pretty much where we landed on the subject as well, but I do think it raises an interesting question that doesn't hurt to discuss. I'm sorry if it offended you.
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It didn't offend me, because you come across as sincere about it. The funny thing is, my girlfriend is the one in the chair and is the one far less sensitive over these things. I feel like springing into an uncontrollable rage sometimes when we're out and about and the bone headed things people say and do around us.
Who knows, maybe that guy and his attendant do normally rent DVDs or what not (most likely), and this is the one time in months or years he actually went out to see a movie. Or perhaps it was a recent injury that happened, and he's out trying to gain the confidence and the ability to do things on his own again (if it's even possible). When my girlfriend first suffered her injury one of the first things they did was escort her to a movie theater so she can learn how to do something as simple as that on her own again.
It can be a stressful thing going to a movie theater with someone in a chair sometimes, and I can imagine even more stressful if the person you're with has a mental handicap, so I doubt they do it all the time. But who knows. Usually someone with a serious disability like that won't normally go do those things because of a number of reasons. If it's disruptive, especially, I don't know if it should be done all that much, obviously.