So I stumbled upon this great blog post by WildKat, entitled 5 Things You Shouldn’t Do When Interacting With a Wheelchair User. It’s a great read, and two of her points in particular rang true for me. So I’ve decided to steal those two and add three more of my own.

Behold: 5 Things You Shouldn’t Do When Hanging With a Wheelchair User

You’d think it was a fairly easy concept to grasp, that wheelchair users might want to, oh I dunno, fit into the disabled bathroom provided for them, so it kinda defeats the purpose when places decide their new accessible bathroom would look great as a storage room. Perhaps it is the size, that puts them off? The sudden realisation that gosh, this is so much larger than our regular toilet, perhaps we can do something with all the extra space..

Here’s one way to raise disability awareness: clobber your prospective girlfriend around the head with your armrest. To be fair to the guy, it’s a new one, the bend-down-so-you-can-hear-me-then-I’ll-whack-you manoeuvre, so I’ll give him points for originality, but gosh, I’m sure she’s well and truly ‘aware’ of his disability now. The guy has been sentenced to 21 months imprisonment for a history of using his wheelchair as a weapon, and I’m pleased to hear it. I actually think it’s good,

You know, when I first read this article, I thought to myself, “I bet she made it up”. Say what you will about my cynicism here, but the whole idea that two blokes would tip a woman out of her wheelchair just to steal 20 bucks seemed a touch ludicrous. Anyway, a few days later, look what showed up on those same very pages: Wheelchair woman charged with making false complaint Some people really need grow up. I mean c’mon,