Fesshole 🧻Jun 19, 2024
I've been wheelchair bound since 2018. I am so fucking tired of having my path completely blocked by arseholes parking their cars on the pavement, I now carry a small Swiss Army Knife with one of those metal punch attachements. 33 tyres ruined and counting. Cunts.
Show threadNoodlemazJun 19, 2024

@fesshole note to readers of this bot
Most people do not use 'wheelchair-bound' to describe themselves anymore, and certainly don't want able-bodied people to describe wheelchair users in that way.

It's a mobility tool that enables people to live their lives and move around the world. Not a trap or a prison.

Just, for later.

Show threadJonathan👣🚲Jun 19, 2024
@noodlemaz @fesshole I think policing this is counterproductive. Intent is more important than the word. There is no one correct way to experience being in a wheelchair. I don’t feel it’s degrading to think it’s restrictive—compared to not needing that aid—or to acknowledge a possibly painful history. I imagine it can be a frustration that needs to be expressed at times. Certainly let people experiencing it speak for themselves. Not being allowed to feel a certain way is what’s degrading.
Show threadNoodlemazJun 19, 2024

@jonathanavt @fesshole I'm not "policing" it, this is a bot that auto posts things. I'm not addressing the person who wrote it, but trying to add useful context. I have had many disabled speakers take the time and effort to explain this point to people, it costs me nothing to try to amplify that message for them.

If someone wants to use it themselves, as original poster did, fine. Telling them not to wasn't the point and I'm certainly not saying people can't feel whatever they do.

Show threadJonathan👣🚲Jun 19, 2024
@noodlemaz @fesshole I’m not saying you’re accusing the writer. But just the fact that this gets pointed out without actual misuse feels repressive to me. Today it feels as if disabilities must always be viewed through rose-tinted glasses, as if that is how people with them get respected, meanwhile putting them in a straitjacket of our own. Maybe we or our surroundings are at different stages of acceptance with respect to disabilities, with different symbols dominating.
Show threadvapid consumer
@jonathanavt Language matters and @noodlemaz was simply pointing out that at least some portion of wheelchair users would prefer to not be called "wheelchair bound". I don't think you need to be nagging them about this.
Jun 20, 2024 at 6:02pmWeb