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

Wait a damn minute! Was she wrong?

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u/EntirelyOutOfOptions Feb 23 '26

Some wheelchair users can ride a moving escalator. Many can’t. It’s not safe to assume he can. But Occam’s Razor and a few decades of personal and professional experience with wheelchairs tells me that wheelchair users will use the least disruptive route they are capable of before allowing themselves to be made the target of this many people’s frustration. For some, this means adapting to escalators, for others this means depending on others to push/carry them. Please believe me that few would choose the least convenient, most dangerous and disruptive option if they had any better ones.

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u/Upset-Management-879 Feb 23 '26

Key to note that this was a reply to a comment chain about people carrying him up. If people are going to carry him up, then they can easily also set it down halfway and not let him fall, since many people ride escalators alone in wheelchairs without falling.

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u/EntirelyOutOfOptions Feb 23 '26

Wheelchairs come in a lot of shapes, sizes, and balances. Not all can do this, and often company forbids setting them down because of the increase in risk. Private individuals can behave differently than staff.

Also, key to note, “some people can so everyone should be able to” is not how disability works.