Just what DOES a handicapped person look like?
By WeenitsMom
@WeenitsMom (492)
United States
February 23, 2007 2:21am CST
My sister was in a car accident about 25 years ago and is now a parapalegic. One day she was going to the store and she pulled into a handicap parking space and before she could get out of the car, a man came to her car and said, "Yeah, you really looked handicapped to me." My sister didn't respond to the man and just watched him go into the store. Tehn she unloaded her wheelchair and went in to the store, where she located the man from the parking lot. She rolled up behind him and said, "Excuse me. Could you tell me just what DOES a handicapped person look like anyway?" Then she simply turned around and left.
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@mari61960 (4893)
• United States
24 Feb 07
Well kudos to your sister. I hope the jackass learned a lesson. Boy I bet he was pooping bricks when she was in front of him in her chair...lol I can just picture the guy with his head spinning as he fumbled through his feeble mind for an answer that just wasn't there. I wish every handicapped person could do that when the need arose.
@mari61960 (4893)
• United States
26 Feb 07
Well to me, his reason for saying anything is beside the point. I think what he did was rude and unclalled for. I do admire the way your sister handled it though.
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@Grandmaof2 (7579)
• Canada
24 Feb 07
Bless your sisters heart. What has happened to our world anyway? The way there's so must hate in the world today he's liable to find out what handicapped looks like, if he upsets the wrong bunch. My guess is one day he'll fall ill to a sickness or whatever, I have and so does everyone at one time or another and my best guess is he'll remember some of these nasty things he's said and done. We can run but we can't hide. Blessing to you and your family...
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@WeenitsMom (492)
• United States
24 Feb 07
Thank you, that's really thoughtful. After my sister got out of the hospital -- which was quite an ordeal in and of itself -- she returned to school and got her GED, then she took some continuing educatin classes, relearned how to drive, gave birth to her second child, and lesrned to ski. She doesn't let it stop her from doing anything she really wants to do.
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@aspendreamer (257)
• United States
1 Mar 07
WOW, your sister is great...
I would have liked to have been standing there to see her in action..
I applaud her...
Great story...
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@classy56 (2880)
• United States
23 Feb 07
wow your sister has courage,that is a good thing.i would have told the guy off myself.bless your sister for standing up to the guy.he was rude to even say anything to her.a handicap person looks human to me,just like everyone else.
@WeenitsMom (492)
• United States
24 Feb 07
My sister is, in many ways, a remarkable woman. She feels as though she needs to set a positive example in public in an effort to try and disprove so many of the negative things people think about the handicapped. Like she says to me, "I might be the only person in a wheelchair they ever meet." Thanks for the post!
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@sunnypub (2128)
• United States
26 Feb 07
Good for your sister. The sad part is that I think the kind of person who would day something like that, would not really care when proven wrong. I know my sister is handicapped, but looks just fine because her handicap is with muscles that are internal, and she gets a lot of crap when she uses handicapped parking. She has even had the cops called on her beofre. It got so bad that she started carrying her oficial handicapped notice around for proof. Not one of the people who gave her crap ever apologized when proven wrong, they all just walked away mad, like she did soemthing to them. It is sad that we live in a world where people always assume the worst, first.
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