While I'm thinking of cruel things people say to people with disabilities, and let me clarify something---I did not lose my legs in an accident, and no shark bit off my arms, so please don't compare me to healthy people who are disabled. I am sick. I have a disease so horrible that it has left me disabled and still I am sick. Okay? I am so tired of 1.) People looking down on me because I don't try skiing (for example)---I am SICK. You call in sick when you get a cold? I went to work 40+ hours a week for 18 years--SICK, multiple sclerosis---LOOK IT UP, so, yes, your judging me as weak or just not willing is offensive to me. And 2.) Just because I am sitting in a power chair, that doesn't mean I am all okey-dokey; I AM SICK. (What does she have to be tired about? She just sits around all day!)
My 2nd best friend, a co-worker, and I used to go to Starbuck's for breaks everyday.
The hills of Seattle are straight DOWN, and the sidewalks on a few of those streets are steep with a capital S. When we first moved here, I loved walking up and down the steepest ones. Being an Indiana gal, well, you just don't see too many hills there. (I laugh now at what we used to call a steep street. HA! <---see----) The walk from my office building to Starbuck's was down a somewhat steep hill. As my MS progressed, it became difficult to go downhill, I had to step a bit sideways and use a cane.
One day my 2nd best friend, says, "Let's hurry up."
I say, "I'm going as fast as I can."
She says, "*I* bet I can make you go faster!" and she motions as if she will give me a push.
Not cool. In fact, I never looked at her the same again. She scared me that day. She often made snide remarks about me faking it, but I laughed and excused them as friendly kidding. This was different and plain insensitive, cruel.
Come to think of it, I don't think I ever went on a break with my former 2nd best friend again and all the ugliness I had seen over the years of working with her suddenly came into view with great clarity.
Again, I can't IMAGINE saying such a thing to anyone.
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Scare a Person with a Cane. It's Easy. Fakers.
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While I'm thinking of cruel things people say to people with disabilities, and let me clarify something---I did not lose my legs in an accident, and no shark bit off my arms, so please don't compare me to healthy people who are disabled. I am sick. I have a disease so horrible that it has left me disabled and still I am sick. Okay? I am so tired of 1.) People looking down on me because I don't try skiing (for example)---I am SICK. You call in sick when you get a cold? I went to work 40+ hours a week for 18 years--SICK, multiple sclerosis---LOOK IT UP, so, yes, your judging me as weak or just not willing is offensive to me. And 2.) Just because I am sitting in a power chair, that doesn't mean I am all okey-dokey; I AM SICK. (What does she have to be tired about? She just sits around all day!)
My 2nd best friend, a co-worker, and I used to go to Starbuck's for breaks everyday.
The hills of Seattle are straight DOWN, and the sidewalks on a few of those streets are steep with a capital S. When we first moved here, I loved walking up and down the steepest ones. Being an Indiana gal, well, you just don't see too many hills there. (I laugh now at what we used to call a steep street. HA! <---see----) The walk from my office building to Starbuck's was down a somewhat steep hill. As my MS progressed, it became difficult to go downhill, I had to step a bit sideways and use a cane.
One day my 2nd best friend, says, "Let's hurry up."
I say, "I'm going as fast as I can."
She says, "*I* bet I can make you go faster!" and she motions as if she will give me a push.
Not cool. In fact, I never looked at her the same again. She scared me that day. She often made snide remarks about me faking it, but I laughed and excused them as friendly kidding. This was different and plain insensitive, cruel.
Come to think of it, I don't think I ever went on a break with my former 2nd best friend again and all the ugliness I had seen over the years of working with her suddenly came into view with great clarity.
Again, I can't IMAGINE saying such a thing to anyone.
While I'm thinking of cruel things people say to people with disabilities, and let me clarify something---I did not lose my legs in an accident, and no shark bit off my arms, so please don't compare me to healthy people who are disabled. I am sick. I have a disease so horrible that it has left me disabled and still I am sick. Okay? I am so tired of 1.) People looking down on me because I don't try skiing (for example)---I am SICK. You call in sick when you get a cold? I went to work 40+ hours a week for 18 years--SICK, multiple sclerosis---LOOK IT UP, so, yes, your judging me as weak or just not willing is offensive to me. And 2.) Just because I am sitting in a power chair, that doesn't mean I am all okey-dokey; I AM SICK. (What does she have to be tired about? She just sits around all day!)
My 2nd best friend, a co-worker, and I used to go to Starbuck's for breaks everyday.
The hills of Seattle are straight DOWN, and the sidewalks on a few of those streets are steep with a capital S. When we first moved here, I loved walking up and down the steepest ones. Being an Indiana gal, well, you just don't see too many hills there. (I laugh now at what we used to call a steep street. HA! <---see----) The walk from my office building to Starbuck's was down a somewhat steep hill. As my MS progressed, it became difficult to go downhill, I had to step a bit sideways and use a cane.
One day my 2nd best friend, says, "Let's hurry up."
I say, "I'm going as fast as I can."
She says, "*I* bet I can make you go faster!" and she motions as if she will give me a push.
Not cool. In fact, I never looked at her the same again. She scared me that day. She often made snide remarks about me faking it, but I laughed and excused them as friendly kidding. This was different and plain insensitive, cruel.
Come to think of it, I don't think I ever went on a break with my former 2nd best friend again and all the ugliness I had seen over the years of working with her suddenly came into view with great clarity.
Again, I can't IMAGINE saying such a thing to anyone.
While I'm thinking of cruel things people say to people with disabilities, and let me clarify something---I did not lose my legs in an accident, and no shark bit off my arms, so please don't compare me to healthy people who are disabled. I am sick. I have a disease so horrible that it has left me disabled and still I am sick. Okay? I am so tired of 1.) People looking down on me because I don't try skiing (for example)---I am SICK. You call in sick when you get a cold? I went to work 40+ hours a week for 18 years--SICK, multiple sclerosis---LOOK IT UP, so, yes, your judging me as weak or just not willing is offensive to me. And 2.) Just because I am sitting in a power chair, that doesn't mean I am all okey-dokey; I AM SICK. (What does she have to be tired about? She just sits around all day!)
My 2nd best friend, a co-worker, and I used to go to Starbuck's for breaks everyday.
The hills of Seattle are straight DOWN, and the sidewalks on a few of those streets are steep with a capital S. When we first moved here, I loved walking up and down the steepest ones. Being an Indiana gal, well, you just don't see too many hills there. (I laugh now at what we used to call a steep street. HA! <---see----) The walk from my office building to Starbuck's was down a somewhat steep hill. As my MS progressed, it became difficult to go downhill, I had to step a bit sideways and use a cane.
One day my 2nd best friend, says, "Let's hurry up."
I say, "I'm going as fast as I can."
She says, "*I* bet I can make you go faster!" and she motions as if she will give me a push.
Not cool. In fact, I never looked at her the same again. She scared me that day. She often made snide remarks about me faking it, but I laughed and excused them as friendly kidding. This was different and plain insensitive, cruel.
Come to think of it, I don't think I ever went on a break with my former 2nd best friend again and all the ugliness I had seen over the years of working with her suddenly came into view with great clarity.
Again, I can't IMAGINE saying such a thing to anyone.
While I'm thinking of cruel things people say to people with disabilities, and let me clarify something---I did not lose my legs in an accident, and no shark bit off my arms, so please don't compare me to healthy people who are disabled. I am sick. I have a disease so horrible that it has left me disabled and still I am sick. Okay? I am so tired of 1.) People looking down on me because I don't try skiing (for example)---I am SICK. You call in sick when you get a cold? I went to work 40+ hours a week for 18 years--SICK, multiple sclerosis---LOOK IT UP, so, yes, your judging me as weak or just not willing is offensive to me. And 2.) Just because I am sitting in a power chair, that doesn't mean I am all okey-dokey; I AM SICK. (What does she have to be tired about? She just sits around all day!)
My 2nd best friend, a co-worker, and I used to go to Starbuck's for breaks everyday.
The hills of Seattle are straight DOWN, and the sidewalks on a few of those streets are steep with a capital S. When we first moved here, I loved walking up and down the steepest ones. Being an Indiana gal, well, you just don't see too many hills there. (I laugh now at what we used to call a steep street. HA! <---see----) The walk from my office building to Starbuck's was down a somewhat steep hill. As my MS progressed, it became difficult to go downhill, I had to step a bit sideways and use a cane.
One day my 2nd best friend, says, "Let's hurry up."
I say, "I'm going as fast as I can."
She says, "*I* bet I can make you go faster!" and she motions as if she will give me a push.
Not cool. In fact, I never looked at her the same again. She scared me that day. She often made snide remarks about me faking it, but I laughed and excused them as friendly kidding. This was different and plain insensitive, cruel.
Come to think of it, I don't think I ever went on a break with my former 2nd best friend again and all the ugliness I had seen over the years of working with her suddenly came into view with great clarity.
Again, I can't IMAGINE saying such a thing to anyone.
While I'm thinking of cruel things people say to people with disabilities, and let me clarify something---I did not lose my legs in an accident, and no shark bit off my arms, so please don't compare me to healthy people who are disabled. I am sick. I have a disease so horrible that it has left me disabled and still I am sick. Okay? I am so tired of 1.) People looking down on me because I don't try skiing (for example)---I am SICK. You call in sick when you get a cold? I went to work 40+ hours a week for 18 years--SICK, multiple sclerosis---LOOK IT UP, so, yes, your judging me as weak or just not willing is offensive to me. And 2.) Just because I am sitting in a power chair, that doesn't mean I am all okey-dokey; I AM SICK. (What does she have to be tired about? She just sits around all day!)
My 2nd best friend, a co-worker, and I used to go to Starbuck's for breaks everyday.
The hills of Seattle are straight DOWN, and the sidewalks on a few of those streets are steep with a capital S. When we first moved here, I loved walking up and down the steepest ones. Being an Indiana gal, well, you just don't see too many hills there. (I laugh now at what we used to call a steep street. HA! <---see----) The walk from my office building to Starbuck's was down a somewhat steep hill. As my MS progressed, it became difficult to go downhill, I had to step a bit sideways and use a cane.
One day my 2nd best friend, says, "Let's hurry up."
I say, "I'm going as fast as I can."
She says, "*I* bet I can make you go faster!" and she motions as if she will give me a push.
Not cool. In fact, I never looked at her the same again. She scared me that day. She often made snide remarks about me faking it, but I laughed and excused them as friendly kidding. This was different and plain insensitive, cruel.
Come to think of it, I don't think I ever went on a break with my former 2nd best friend again and all the ugliness I had seen over the years of working with her suddenly came into view with great clarity.
Again, I can't IMAGINE saying such a thing to anyone.
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