Faking needing a wheelchair by moving my leg? #Shorts

[blehhhhhh]

fr bro i hate how that the way media depicts disabilities and how it influences how people think

[RosarioTV]

Very ignorant. Just because a person is in a wheelchair doesn't mean they are completely nonmobil.

[barrytaylorprofoundlydeafi]

When will able bodied people realise that not all people that use a wheelchair are paralysed from the waist down! Some only use a wheelchair part time when their legs are too weak to walk far etc! It's nobody else's business whether you use a wheelchair or not! I don't see the point of faking a disablity! I am profoundly deaf & have an indwelling catheter sticking out of my manhood so why would I fake that! If I choose not to wear my hearing aids it does not mean I am faking my deafness! So well done for highlighting this! 🥰🥰

[oktoberain]

This happens to me ALL the time. I am able to move my legs and even stand/walk a little, but I can’t STAY standing. My legs collapse LONG before I can do something like walk through a whole store, etc.

Crossing my leg over my knee while sitting actually helps to decrease my severe spinal pain, by taking pressure off of the most severely-damaged and diseased part of my lumbar spine. I know that it LOOKS like I’m just casually crossing my leg, but there’s nothing casual about it!

I also get nasty comments if/when I stand up to reach for something, which is VERY frustrating. I have never claimed to be paralyzed! I can move my legs—even use them for short periods of time/distance—but that doesn't mean that I don’t need my wheelchair, or that I’m not disabled.

The worst part is that because I am overweight, everyone assumes I’m just “lazy”—when the truth is that I am actually THIN compared to my *previous* weight! I’ve had bariatric surgery and I now have to constantly fend of malnutrition, because I was previously *obese*. If I look so very repulsive *now*, I don’t even want to know what people thought of me before. 💔

I’ve worked my ass off, suffered more pain than I can describe, made SO much progress…but then someone comes along who knows nothing at all about me (but assumes that they DO, at a glance), and all of the sudden, everything that I have endured to lose that 100+ lbs and the work I’ve done to keep my legs strong enough for me to stand (and even walk a little, usually with a cane) is just erased. It feels like *I am erased* every single time that happens.

I have all but become a recluse these days. I’m so weary of the cruelty and the judgment, and the refusal to give other people the most BASIC courtesy of the “benefit of the doubt”; it hurts less to just stay here in my bedroom all day every day.

I wish I still had the emotional fortitude that you possess. But decades of being treated like human garbage has stripped my heart bare, and I have no psychological “skin” left at all to protect myself.

[Crazyhuskylady]

Why is nobody talking about the fact that she use a famous Encanto song in this short 😮

[lefthasty]

Thinking that is bad enough, but people actually say it to you?!

[Questchaun]

Sometimes I sit in a chair. Other times I ride a bike..

I don't make it my personality.