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Part time wheelchair use
Anyone else notice the annoying questions and looks you get when you only have to use a wheelchair part of the time. My nerve problems tend to act up much more at night and be manageable during the day. How do you guys handle these situations short of carrying around print outs stating that the condition is not always present/can be worse at certain times of day?




Ugh that's so shitty to deal with, I'm sorry :/ Don't really have anything to add but just, pain is hard enough to manage it sucks that people are also crappy about it!!
Probably depends on how well I know the person/people, to be honest. Most likely I'd handle it the same way I handle it when I (a sighted person) have the Guide Dog for whatever reason and then get behind the wheel of the car after having him in some place where I didn't "need" him (because I, as a sighted person, obviously didn't need him.) None. Of. Your. Business. (There are many legitimate reasons for a sighted person to have a Guide Dog in a public place, for the record. Not any service dog, a Guide Dog. The people who can ask aren't the people who usually do.)
For friends and certain acquaintances, go ahead and explain it. Yeah it's a pain to explain it more than once, but it's not the end of the world. Varying nerve pain isn't even that uncommon.
That last sentence is exactly why it seems so infuriating. It's not that uncommon but people act like it never happens or no one in the world has ever seen it before. Like seriously it's not like I'm turning orange people.