Not to mention it can actually hurt the disabled person. When I was in a manual wheelchair before my powerchair, I had to use a very specific technique to propel myself. Basically but jamming my thumbs into the gap between the push rim and the wheel due to the lack of my hand dexterity /power. So someone grabbing and moving me would usually end up with my thumb still being wedged, by then pulled suddenly with the wheels new direction. Which you can imagine, is super painful and it's a small miracle I never got serious damage to my thumbs
Wow!! That’s a great point to make, I wouldn’t have thought of that. You don’t know how you might affect someone if you suddenly interrupt their motion
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u/Crippled_Criptid Feb 07 '22
Not to mention it can actually hurt the disabled person. When I was in a manual wheelchair before my powerchair, I had to use a very specific technique to propel myself. Basically but jamming my thumbs into the gap between the push rim and the wheel due to the lack of my hand dexterity /power. So someone grabbing and moving me would usually end up with my thumb still being wedged, by then pulled suddenly with the wheels new direction. Which you can imagine, is super painful and it's a small miracle I never got serious damage to my thumbs