Weight gain is kind of part of the disability if you have a mobility problem, or, you know, actual paralysis. This is a ridiculous transfer of responsibility fr

Weight gain is kind of part of the disability if you have a mobility problem, or, you know, actual paralysis. This is a ridiculous transfer of responsibility from those who design and maintain the environment, to those who experience disabilities caused by the failures of that environment's design and maintenance. I want to be polite but also clearly express how angry this idea makes me. Also I disagree on how much the physics of a power chair would be affected by this. Yes, maybe it would be marginally easier if heavier wheelchair users were less heavy... In fact, it would be even better if they could walk. That's about as practical an idea. We cannot control the person's physical size or abilities. We can broaden the range of humans for whom we design things by doing better work. That's all we can do. That's what we should do.