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> The lovely, welcoming residents of Chicago catcalled her using wheelchair-related phrases, one guy on the train pointed at her and told her to kill herself, a
by 13of40 3y ago
> The lovely, welcoming residents of Chicago catcalled her using wheelchair-related phrases, one guy on the train pointed at her and told her to kill herself, and someone kicked her cast in a crowd.
Dear god. My wife broke her leg about a month ago, and I've been pushing her in a wheelchair when we go out. The spectrum of reactions so far has run from a quick smile to strangers coming up to ask what happened and wish her well. This is in the eastern Seattle suburbs. WTF, people?
- wutbrodo 3y agoI was surprised to hear GP's story about the Midwest, but not surprised to hear an anecdote of West Coasters being kinder to strangers than elsewhere. Any one of those stories is worse than anything I've experienced in decades of living in large California cities
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- joker_minmax 3y agoAs I've said in a different reply, the KYS guy was definitely on drugs - his demeanor was abnormal even before he opened his mouth. And every city will have characters of that type. But the other people were just average run-of-the-mill folks from afar who decided to make her day worse.
- code_duck 3y agoA few years ago I was discussing my health problems with a group of vague colleagues and someone told me that because I have Celiac disease and type 1 diabetes, I should kill myself. I don’t even remember who it was who told me that, but now and then I ponder what sort of insensitive attitude one would have to make that suggestion. To me it makes them sound rather inflexible and weak. It’s actually something people say commonly in relation to Celiac, that if they couldn’t eat generic pizza or burgers, they would rather simply die. I wager that if put to the test, these people would not choose to end their lives if they had to be careful and selective about food. It makes me wonder, is eating some junk food really the only reason they have to live?
- Aeolun 3y ago> is eating some junk food really the only reason they have to live? I doubt it. But it’s probably high on the list of things they would miss most. Not being able to walk, meh. Not being able to eat pizza?!
- code_duck 3y agoGluten free pizza does exist and is perfectly adequate to me. Certain styles of crust work great (gf ingredients are good for making something crispy, but not so much doughy and chewy). But yeah, specific pizza or other people’s pizza is out of bounds. It’s very inconvenient, but not total doom.
- joker_minmax 3y agoIronically, the disabled student I went to Chicago with, was Celiac as well. We actually had such a fun time finding Celiac-friendly places to eat, and I enjoyed trying new forms of familiar foods. The one advantage to going to a huge city is that there WERE Celiac-friendly places, and the smaller city I lived in at the time had nothing dedicatedly GF. I'm sorry there are people who said that to you. It's disheartening how people can't think outside the box and realize if human beings are creative enough to build the Coliseum and the Great Wall, we can figure out a way to make a gluten-free version bread. Might not be exactly the same as wheat, but it's decent, and we're innovating all the time. I wish you a flourishing life!