Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Don’t ever call me ‘wheelchair bound’. My wheelchair doesn’t bind me – it liberates me

The wheelchair represents many different things, depending on the beholder’s personal experience. Many is the time I have been acutely aware that my wheelchair makes me the living embodiment of that blue symbol that adorns bathrooms and parking spaces.

I hadn’t really given wheelchairs much thought myself, until 13 years ago when I fell from a tree and sustained a spinal cord injury (SCI), causing instant and permanent paraplegia.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2Aj1XR0

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