See, that's the kind of nonsense we need to be done with once and for all. A "mere wheelchair" is something a person recovering from an accident or surgery migh

See, that's the kind of nonsense we need to be done with once and for all. A "mere wheelchair" is something a person recovering from an accident or surgery might need to use for a few weeks, or, perhaps, something like the equivalent of a bicycle for someone making a deliberate decision to be active. But for an alarmingly large number of people -- quads, high-loss paras, people with CP, MS or spinabifida, etc -- the "chair" is a prosthesis, a strap-on body that allows them to move through and interact with a world that is otherwise denied to them. Until enough people can see that, we can't say we've progressed much beyond the point of handing out begging-bowls...