#im SURE companies were making great strides in ergonomic wheelchair design in an era where businesses werent even required to let someone

[rohirric-hunter]

There's a drawing post about wheelchairs going around where the OP basically rips into artists for drawing people in hospital wheelchairs because they were "outdated in the 70s" and "nobody uses them" and "it's impossible to get around in them without someone to push you" and...

That's the kind my sister uses.

My sister has to use that kind because of her condition, the newer models don't really help with her needs, but that's not the point. The point is that I have to question the world OP lives in, where you never have to settle for a cheaper option because insurance doesn't cover the whole cost and something is better than nothing, where your only option maybe was a secondhand wheelchair someone got for free after a sports injury that they're now reselling for $15 because they have no concept of what it's worth, or where your needs are maybe a little different from the generally accepted demographic of people who use something. It's such a disgustingly privileged perspective, coming from someone who's clearly been lucky enough to always get more or less exactly what they need and takes it as a personal attack that not everyone is.

#ignore me im complaining #also im not gonna look up the history of wheelchairs to debunk the 'outdated in the 70s' comment but ada wasnt signed into law until 1990 #so #like #yeah #im SURE companies were making great strides in ergonomic wheelchair design in an era where businesses werent even required to let someone #in a wheelchair come in #that sounds SUPER plausible