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Mobility Aids and Invisible Ilness
As I continue to heal (and stick with this “surgery theme” of the week), I keep wondering how many of you have used mobility aids before?
I am using a walker post-surgery, and upgrading soon to a cane for long distances, but honestly, I think I might be “hands free” for the most part pretty soon. I can be weird about using wheelchairs even when I need them (after surgeries), and often refuse mobility aids for no major reason. Maybe it’s because of shallow dancer pride, or my own fallible notions of “being strong”, but mobility aids (and handicapped stickers) have never been friends of mine, now or in the past.
I know this has a lot to do with my own internalized ableism, and of that I’m ashamed. I’m trying to reflect deeply on this deep fault, but I’m also trying to be honest about said faults.
In all honesty, how do you feel about mobility aids and the concept of “visible” illness? Has having a mostly “invisible illness” shifted your thinking?
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