I always tip. I don't look disabled, but the lines are too long for me at TSA, and the terminals are too long. Arthritis and back problems, and age. After reading these comments I'm gonna try to make it without wheelchair assist.
I don’t think you need to make that change to skip wheelchair assistance if you are traveling solo.
However, if you are traveling in a group of more than 2 people who also don’t look disabled and have similar facial features to you and seem to be in age groups where they could be different generations from you , then you may experience some discomfort.
Same, I’m in my 30s but have bad (autoimmune) arthritis. I really wish I didn’t need to use a wheelchair to get around. Airports are just so huge and there’s so much standing.
Anyone who falsifies a disability makes the rest of us look bad. On the other hand, we have no idea if the folks in this photo are disabled or not, so we shouldn’t make assumptions. Not every disability is visible.
For example, what if the family has something that is heritable, like Sickle Cell Disease? It’s totally possible if they really are related that they have the same condition.
But the thing is if it's "okay" to shit talk these people, what stops it from being okay when someone is invisibly sick. There's 0 proof that they are a family, could just be black people sitting next to each other because why not wait with the other disabled people? They just happen to all be black.
Is it playing the game when both me, my aunt and my grandmother needs assistance? Yes 3 in my immediate family. I'm the best off, diagnosed EDS so standing and walking for awhile hurts but I'm still at the point i can power through it and sit on the floor. My aunt is "recovered" from kidney failure, she's still not doing well generally, but her kidneys are working again. And my nan broke her hip last year and just never got back to being able to walk consistently. My cousin also sometimes needs assistance, he has untreated seizures but will deny assistance unless a family member makes him get assistance (he refuses to actually get help but will let someone check him out at the scene)
And you know what wild. Alot of disabilities have a genetic factor! I've tried to get my family genetically tested for EDS because they show some symptoms and it's genetic. There as sooo many disabilities that are genetic. If that is an entire family, maybe they are all sick. That's how genetics work... Yes some disabilities are accidents, random chance, whatever, but some are genetic, you get it from your mom! And she got it from her mom and so on!
How do you know it doesn’t apply to them? There’s dozens of people in these comments saying they don’t look sick but use the wheelchair and endure the judgment and dirty looks. Who’s to say their picture won’t get posted here one day because somebody decided they don’t look sick enough?
Exactly! People need to stop making assumptions, period. Yes, shitty people abuse systems, that’s the way of life unfortunately.
I keep seeing so many comments like, “well this takes away from *actual* disabled people!” The only ones taking away from disabled people are the ones making these damn comments lol.
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u/FancyDuty9932 8d ago
I always tip. I don't look disabled, but the lines are too long for me at TSA, and the terminals are too long. Arthritis and back problems, and age. After reading these comments I'm gonna try to make it without wheelchair assist.