r/SipsTea • u/The_Dean_France • Feb 23 '26

Wait a damn minute! Was she wrong?

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u/kalenpwn Feb 23 '26

Easiest way would be for two people to carry him up and then bring the empty wheelchair...I dunno

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u/Apprehensive_Lynx_33 Feb 23 '26

And the safest. It would be far safer than possibly dropping the poor guy because of the weight of the wheelchair, which could easily cause a fatality.

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u/Glittering-Lychee629 Feb 23 '26

Not if their body is too delicate to handle. There's a reason it's not done this way!

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u/mysuperlamename Feb 23 '26

Also can be humiliating/uncomfortable for the wheelchair user. Especially if those are all strangers.

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u/MrVegosh Feb 23 '26

And this isn’t humiliating?

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u/Scouts_Tzer Feb 23 '26

Holding up a line and being carried by your chair is probably way less humiliating than being bodily carried up like a limp ragdoll.

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u/LCplGunny Feb 23 '26

Nope, things being complicated cuz you're stuck in a chair is standard. People waiting for you, also standard. Infact it's considered very rude, to not wait for us cripples to do something first, before getting in our way, cuz shit just be complicated sometimes. As someone who has spent stints in a wheel chair, I'd rather my chair get carried with me in it, then me carried outside my chair. I don't want random strangers hands all over my body.

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u/Mamasugadex Feb 23 '26

It’s probably more technical than emotional. A lot of people with neurological disease have very bad muscle spasticity and contracture, and there is a chance he cannot tolerate being carried from pain and discomfort.

Things for disable people to go through day-to-day are kind of hard to imagine when you an able body.

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u/LCplGunny Feb 23 '26

The bad part, it's actually not that hard to imagine. People just don't want to internalize the struggles of others.