@ai6yr it's a fair question.

Most people who are wheel enhanced i know love their autonomy and agency, but I do not know how many would welcome this.

Maybe this post will find people want it.

I did a wheelchair experiment in a hospital once. Naval Hospital Orlando, my last day as staff there, I did in a wheelchair in uniform.

It's amazing how different the world is from that perspective. And that was one day. Not a life.

I should write about that sometime. You jogged that memory.

@knowprose I would note that "a day spent in a wheelchair perspective" by abled people is a genre that's a little bit (a lot bit) overdone, but the difference of it being at a naval hospital in uniform might be different enough to give it merit.

the thing is exactly as you said, that that's one single day and not a life, and whatever insight abled people think that they get into the life of someone using a wheelchair is. minimal, and things that disabled people and wheelchair users have been shouting from the rooftops for years. so the idea is that abled people shouldn't have had to spend a day using a wheelchair to have these realisations because that means that the attention isn't getting paid to actually disabled people.

i don't mean to come in all hostile in your reply, just wanted you to be aware that these sort of things are often not taken well in the disability community.

@californiummm Fair enough. It's just less than 8 hours I was in it.

But there is a story before it.

You be the judge. I was just coming back to the thread to post this, which I will.

https://realityfragments.com/2026/03/21/wheelchair/

@knowprose @californiummm

I was a bit surprised and interested at how this thread developed

But having now read your linked blog, yeah, you are a dickhead. Based on EXTREMELY limited experience, you are trying to make this about you. Not about actual wheelchair users.

Don't do that and just fuck off nicely