Comments on: Wheelchair Etiquette http://myspellingsucks.com/wheelchair-etiquette/ An unedited discussion on my dyslexia, ADD, and my child's Cerebral Palsy Mon, 05 Sep 2011 05:39:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Dad http://myspellingsucks.com/wheelchair-etiquette/comment-page-1/#comment-76 Dad Sat, 30 May 2009 00:56:03 +0000 http://myspellingsucks.com/?p=105#comment-76 What a terrific posting. I don't think there's sensitive person, at any age, who hasn't experienced the awkward situations you've just discussed. What's interesting, though, is that most people, looking back - including myself - try to put the awkward situation behind them and out of their minds as soon as they move on from the wheelchair-using person. Thus, the same awkwardness arises every time folks encounter such a person, and perhaps, causes them to avoid eye-contact or conversing with them because of the extreme discomfort that builds on the previously unresolved experiences. With the practical advice you offer here, it would set many folks more at ease and give them more confidence to approach a wheelchair-using person out of the same caring and sensitivity that was inhibiting them previously. I hope you post some of this valuable information at other blog sites that deal with these issues. What you're offering should be spread around beyond just informing those who happen to come to your blog. Love, Dad. What a terrific posting. I don’t think there’s sensitive person, at any age, who hasn’t experienced the awkward situations you’ve just discussed. What’s interesting, though, is that most people, looking back – including myself – try to put the awkward situation behind them and out of their minds as soon as they move on from the wheelchair-using person. Thus, the same awkwardness arises every time folks encounter such a person, and perhaps, causes them to avoid eye-contact or conversing with them because of the extreme discomfort that builds on the previously unresolved experiences.

With the practical advice you offer here, it would set many folks more at ease and give them more confidence to approach a wheelchair-using person out of the same caring and sensitivity that was inhibiting them previously.

I hope you post some of this valuable information at other blog sites that deal with these issues. What you’re offering should be spread around beyond just informing those who happen to come to your blog.

Love,
Dad.

]]> By: Dad http://myspellingsucks.com/wheelchair-etiquette/comment-page-1/#comment-624 Dad Sat, 30 May 2009 00:56:00 +0000 http://myspellingsucks.com/?p=105#comment-624 What a terrific posting. I don't think there's sensitive person, at any age, who hasn't experienced the awkward situations you've just discussed. What's interesting, though, is that most people, looking back - including myself - try to put the awkward situation behind them and out of their minds as soon as they move on from the wheelchair-using person. Thus, the same awkwardness arises every time folks encounter such a person, and perhaps, causes them to avoid eye-contact or conversing with them because of the extreme discomfort that builds on the previously unresolved experiences. With the practical advice you offer here, it would set many folks more at ease and give them more confidence to approach a wheelchair-using person out of the same caring and sensitivity that was inhibiting them previously. I hope you post some of this valuable information at other blog sites that deal with these issues. What you're offering should be spread around beyond just informing those who happen to come to your blog. Love, Dad. What a terrific posting. I don’t think there’s sensitive person, at any age, who hasn’t experienced the awkward situations you’ve just discussed. What’s interesting, though, is that most people, looking back – including myself – try to put the awkward situation behind them and out of their minds as soon as they move on from the wheelchair-using person. Thus, the same awkwardness arises every time folks encounter such a person, and perhaps, causes them to avoid eye-contact or conversing with them because of the extreme discomfort that builds on the previously unresolved experiences.

With the practical advice you offer here, it would set many folks more at ease and give them more confidence to approach a wheelchair-using person out of the same caring and sensitivity that was inhibiting them previously.

I hope you post some of this valuable information at other blog sites that deal with these issues. What you’re offering should be spread around beyond just informing those who happen to come to your blog.

Love,
Dad.

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