Comments on: So, Do You Really Need That Cane? Why, Yes. Yes I Do. https://www.disabilityandrepresentation.com/ableism/so-do-you-really-need-that-cane-why-yes-yes-i-do/ Changing the Cultural Conversation Fri, 19 Jul 2024 04:46:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: YsOOFOQdfZ7KpB https://www.disabilityandrepresentation.com/ableism/so-do-you-really-need-that-cane-why-yes-yes-i-do/#comment-503 Fri, 19 Jul 2024 04:46:02 +0000 https://www.disabilityandrepresentation.com/so-do-you-really-need-that-cane-why-yes-yes-i-do/#comment-503 748581 249576Thank you for the great writeup. It in fact was a amusement account it. Look advanced to far added agreeable from you! Nevertheless, how could we communicate? 239285

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]]> By: Cathy Y. https://www.disabilityandrepresentation.com/ableism/so-do-you-really-need-that-cane-why-yes-yes-i-do/#comment-54 Wed, 17 Jul 2024 09:52:42 +0000 https://www.disabilityandrepresentation.com/so-do-you-really-need-that-cane-why-yes-yes-i-do/#comment-54 @julesinrose, my personal take on why people react that way is because the cane is more associated with disability than those other things you mentioned (eyeglasses, hearing aids, etc.), thus in their minds potentially garnering more sympathy from others and more chances for assistance (disability income, etc.). It seems everyone you meet these days is “on the lookout” for other people who may be “gaming the system” or cheating in some way or another. It’s more comfortable for them to think that’s the case than to actually drum up some compassion for their fellow human beings.

]]> By: julesinrose https://www.disabilityandrepresentation.com/ableism/so-do-you-really-need-that-cane-why-yes-yes-i-do/#comment-53 Wed, 17 Jul 2024 09:52:35 +0000 https://www.disabilityandrepresentation.com/so-do-you-really-need-that-cane-why-yes-yes-i-do/#comment-53 I don’t get it. People are judgmental about whether or not a person “needs” a cane. If you use any walking assistance inconsistently, people are baffled, as if using an assistance device is a sign of weakness or even mental unsoundness.

People understand wearing eyeglasses some of the time, hearing aids, wrist braces. What is it about a walking device that makes them different? Is it just scarier for others? Less common, so less understandable?

I just do not get it.

]]> By: Cathy Y. https://www.disabilityandrepresentation.com/ableism/so-do-you-really-need-that-cane-why-yes-yes-i-do/#comment-52 Wed, 17 Jul 2024 09:52:28 +0000 https://www.disabilityandrepresentation.com/so-do-you-really-need-that-cane-why-yes-yes-i-do/#comment-52 I recently started using a cane for times when I have to walk far (e.g. taking my kids trick-or-treating, which is a lot farther than I can usually walk) or when we went to the museum and had to walk and stand around a lot for a few hours. Even though I have chronic foot problems, the main reason I use it is that I find it helps me to have something to lean on when standing, because the fibromyalgia in my upper body is just too much at times. (In the grocery store, I have the cart to lean on instead.) I’ve also been mindful of how I must “look” with my cane, that I’d better not take a step without it lest someone think I am “cheating,” even though I can walk short distances fairly easily. Sadly, I used to think the same way about others. Now I have learned.

]]> By: Rev Kelli Parrish Lucas https://www.disabilityandrepresentation.com/ableism/so-do-you-really-need-that-cane-why-yes-yes-i-do/#comment-51 Wed, 17 Jul 2024 09:52:21 +0000 https://www.disabilityandrepresentation.com/so-do-you-really-need-that-cane-why-yes-yes-i-do/#comment-51 Thanks! I have had this experience too, and variations of it. I have often wondered about the “performance” quality and expectations of disability. It is another layer of what society “expects” from PWD. They are so unspoken. We need to have this discussion

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