Disabled people are not Zoo Attractions. And it’s certainly not headline news when your best friend pushes the wheelchair. Disabled people are normal people. The title of this post should seem like an obvious statement but in my experience not enough people know that, it should be simple. People are people, period. It’s not simple to the world at large though. I know this because people look at me with utter shock as I do normal things. It happens ALL the time. I could be doing something as mundane as buying my preferred junk foods at Walmart, or ordering food and drinks for a girls night with my bestie, and almost every time they will look to my BFF Aubri for confirmation on my choices. It’s almost as if my wheelchair negates my ability to make sound choices or be even remotely normal. It is beyond aggravating and borders on dehumanizing when the cashier working at Jack in the Box has to double check your taco order with your attendant. And that, in and of itself, is bad enough but then after my busy day doing daily errands when I just so happen to run across an article on Facebook […]

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