Anything I'd say would sound condescending, as I can't even begin to imagine what you're going through or how much people can be insensitive dicks.

Only thing I CAN say is "I'm sorry people can be jerks."

If your elevator is behind a very heavy pair of double doors that can only be manually opened, you're doing it wrong.

I have a friend myself who uses a wheelchair, but not all the time, so I'm fully aware that it's a thing. But I'd like to flatter myself that even if I didn't have said friend, I would have the brainpower to figure out that if I saw someone get up from their wheelchair, then it means that they don't need it all the time, not that they don't need it at all.

People like that are just a--holes and you're absolutely right: They have no right to question you and throw accusations at you. If they're truly interested in expanding their mind they can go home and google or ask a doctor the next time they meet one.
And I'm really sorry that you have to deal with that kind of crap on top of having a medical condition.

*hugs* (Or a *highfive* if you're not a huggy person.)

I never see these people in real life, but I always hear about them. People who are just complete, through and through dicks. I wonder where they go, where they hide.
Is there a meeting place of some sort? Some rarely visited thread in the middle of the internet wasteland where people talk about other human beings the same way the Avengers talk about Hydra?
I like to think that I'm pretty good at empathising with others, but these people are complete enigmas to me.
How misanthropic does someone have to be to instantly assume that someone is up to no good for standing out of a wheelchair? Surely there are other conclusions to come to?
Or are these people desperate to be Batman - ready to jump at any assumed criminal activity and bask in that feeling of 'There's someone I'm objectively better than!'

I don't know.
You deserve better than this. Cor, blimey.

Some people don't like thinking very much, do they? I mean, it should be obvious that there are things in between "Completely unable to walk, ever" and "Can walk as far as I like without pain", and that, at some point, a wheelchair is far more convenient, fast, and comfortable. But most people are clueless, not because they can't understand, but because they don't bother to think about it.

I don't have a physical disability, but I do have autism and recurrent depression, and I get the same crap in a different way. Every time I manage something that's difficult for me--say for example attending a social gathering without losing my words, shutting down, or bolting out of there--everybody expects me to be able to do that *all the time*. It doesn't matter if that was a good brain day and I'm going to pay for it by having to take it easy for at least 24 hours thereafter; people just assume that hey, if I did it once, I should be able to do it whenever I like.

Every time you have a good day and people see you can do something, they hold it against you.

My first thought was 'Did anyone on Board said something that sparked this?', but after we've learned that it was because of college I can agree that humans, more often than not, are d-bags. Yes, I include myself in that, but that's beside the point.

After an accident, sometimes my left ankle refuses to work. The pain usually lasts couple of hours, then subsides, but couple of months ago it was so bad I couldn't stand up from my chair. I panicked. For the rest of the day, I had to use a makeshift cane to move around. This usually doesn't prevent me from doing activities (I used to train capoeira; it was fun, but right now it's out of the question), but sometimes it does. This, and the fact that I look like the Fat Bastard from Austin Powers, made people think that it's okay to tell me to exercise more and more, and that I'm lazy and ambition-less... Even if I know all of that, and it doesn't come easy for me, it doesn't matter because apparently I'm not even trying to do anything about myself. So yeah, I kinda get what you're feeling, Ix.

i swear to gosh darn hell people like that piss me off. Just like that one woman who posed in a wheelchair for a photo fashion shoot because she thinks being trans is the same thing as being in a wheelchair.

What happened? Is it really serious? (well, obviously it is, but...) Any chance for you to defintively get out of a wheelchair someday?

Hardic, freaking worried right now.