mamabunny
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Oct 11, 2012
I honestly can’t remember, but the lady was adamant that we need to make it clear that mobility devices are an extension of a person’s body and laws and rules need to treat it as such when there is damages involved.
Yes. Our mobility devices are exactly that - an extension of our bodies. If you damage my wheelchair, or one of my beloved TravelScoots, you have damaged *me*, as I can no longer move without it.
I have never understood, even before I became so reliant upon a device, why that seems to be a surprising concept to the able-bodied.
But then again, most able-bodied folks don’t realize that they are actually just TABs: Temporarily Able Bodied people. A very large percentage of the very folks who will publicly proclaim that DAS shouldn’t be allowed, that they don’t want to see scooters or wheelchairs in the parks… those people who glare at us at WDW because we have dared to remind them of their inevitable future, with our Rollators and our canes, and yes, our scooters… They will most likely some day end up here. They will forget that they ever rolled their eyes when a ride had to stop or slow for us - but in the future, they will demand that it does for them, or their loved one. They will never understand that for the last 50+ years, other folks - including us, right now today - have helped pave the way for future generations of disabled Guests at Disney Parks by being a living experiment in how to manage both the temporarily able-bodied *and* the disabled smoothly and easily.
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I can’t fix everything, but I won’t stop trying!