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Ask A Wheeler - Disability Q&A and more: August 2012
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Aug 1, 2012. Questions: Where do they come from? From Vancouver, British Columbia asks:. Do different groups of people ask you different types of questions in public? As a matter of fact, they do. On the surface this sounds like a simple question with a simple and obvious answer. I find the answer to be a lot more complex than people may realize. I'm going to divide the answer into several distinct groups that I notice, and elaborate on each of them. 1 People who are elderly. Some also ask for their frie...
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Ask A Wheeler - Disability Q&A and more: March 2012
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Mar 22, 2012. I am sitting at Vancouver airport as I write this, filling out a questionnaire for a video that I will be helping out with for British Columbia's tourism and hospitality industry in nearby Victoria. One of the questions asked is a very good one. Tourism British Columbia from Victoria, British Columbia asks:. What issues do you have when it comes to accommodations such as hotels? For example, I know someone who was told that the hotel room he wanted was recently renovated to become fully whe...
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Confined Abilities: July 2011
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011. Sappy media stories about "walking again". I am going to get a lot of heat for saying this, but I really hate sappy news stories about paraplegics being able to "walk again" due to some miracle machinery. It is in response to this story. That came out a few months ago. A student, who acquired a spinal cord injury in 2007, is set to walk across the stage at his graduation at Berkeley, with the help of a robotic exoskeleton and forearm crutches. Posted by Audacity Filmworks. Equal...
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Confined Abilities: Equal opportunity employers. Kinda. Sorta. Maybe not.
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Tuesday, July 12, 2011. Equal opportunity employers. Kinda. Sorta. Maybe not. All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.". I'm a pessimistic person in general. A lot of people are surprised when they hear it, but it's true. In my view, at the root of every person (even for me) is greed and selfishness, whether the person realizes it or not. Which is why they can't take a risk on workers with disabilities. I've landed several interviews. Except for one interview, one of the th...
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Ask A Wheeler - Disability Q&A and more: Questions: Where do they come from?
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Aug 1, 2012. Questions: Where do they come from? From Vancouver, British Columbia asks:. Do different groups of people ask you different types of questions in public? As a matter of fact, they do. On the surface this sounds like a simple question with a simple and obvious answer. I find the answer to be a lot more complex than people may realize. I'm going to divide the answer into several distinct groups that I notice, and elaborate on each of them. 1 People who are elderly. Some also ask for their frie...
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Ask A Wheeler - Disability Q&A and more: Helping people in wheelchairs
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Jun 3, 2012. Helping people in wheelchairs. Larry from Rowland Heights, California asks:. Where I work, there is a guy in a wheelchair. Every time I help him open the door, he looks annoyed with me. What am I doing wrong/incorrectly? This one is pretty simple. I am sure he is annoyed because you were helping him without asking. In addition, by helping him with something that he can do, you are also inadvertently highlighting his disability or drawing attention to it. However, if he accepts your help, the...
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Ask A Wheeler - Disability Q&A and more: June 2012
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Jun 3, 2012. Helping people in wheelchairs. Larry from Rowland Heights, California asks:. Where I work, there is a guy in a wheelchair. Every time I help him open the door, he looks annoyed with me. What am I doing wrong/incorrectly? This one is pretty simple. I am sure he is annoyed because you were helping him without asking. In addition, by helping him with something that he can do, you are also inadvertently highlighting his disability or drawing attention to it. However, if he accepts your help, the...
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Confined Abilities: Follow-up: Staring, people's assumptions
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011. Follow-up: Staring, people's assumptions. Yesterday I posted a blog entry about the issue of staring at people in wheelchairs. Today, I came across another interesting viewpoint, from Tiffany Carlson ( @TiffCarlson. It is from the EasyStand blog, in a post entitled "We Can Live The Good Life Too". Brain does not compute. They don't know that I am capable of things like wheeling at full running speed for 3 kilometres along the False Creek seawall without stopping, and then some.
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Ask A Wheeler - Disability Q&A and more: What are we called, exactly?
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Mar 13, 2012. What are we called, exactly? Tammy from Manchester, England asks:. If I see someone in a wheelchair/cane/etc., should I call him/her? The person's name always helps. But with that aside, that is a good question. There have been many words used in the past to describe people with disabilities. Just like many other civil rights movements, the words have evolved over time according to the sensitivities and perceived appropriateness of each generation. The reason for this is that there is a mov...
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