Living and laughing with a disability - cerebral palsy; ordinary life, extraordinary circumstances.

Monday, September 28, 2009

Sometimes I think the world would be a better place if...

...every non-disabled person experienced time in a wheelchair:

Disability changes the view | The Journal Gazette, Fort Wayne, Ind.: "Getting this wheelchair through that festival was like being shoved around while sitting on top of a barbecue grill.

After about 20 minutes, I started to wonder whether caramel apples were worth navigating through pieces of gravel the size of a Ford Festiva. (They are.) Or whether the opportunity to sit and watch a group of people pop Beano before tucking into bowls of ham and bean soup was worth the approximately 15 minutes it took me to get to the top of the hill where they were sitting. (It wasn’t.)

Here’s the surprising part: Despite the wheelchair challenges I encountered – including hitting a pothole and getting tipped out of the chair like a bag of manure – this was one of the most enjoyable times I’ve had at the festival."

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