https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2014/05/12/its-strange-to-walk-places/ Sat, 07 Jun 2014 01:21:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2014/05/12/its-strange-to-walk-places/#comment-26368 Sat, 07 Jun 2014 01:21:07 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/?p=1612#comment-26368 That reminds me of a post that you wrote a while ago about you and a friend in a waiting room in your wheelchairs, joking about her staff being seating-impaired.

]]> https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2014/05/12/its-strange-to-walk-places/#comment-25749 Mon, 12 May 2014 20:08:00 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/?p=1612#comment-25749 it is more than true; perception is the reality in a person’s mind, accurate or not. You have experienced some extremes and have the talent to articulate that experience. Race, gender, age, mobility aids, attire…i have conducted some experiments of my own and get some radically different engagement from people i know and don’t know. Only one word describes it and that is ‘un-evolved’. I hope you will write more about this new mode of mobility for you as it is a huge impass for me. I should have a scooter or powerchair for long distances, but i resist with all my being as i am terrified that my cognative value will plummet. It isolating for me, as a farmer (of sorts) to need wheels to navigate my little farm. Plainly, it feels defeatest. Please write more as you have the where with all.

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