This is right. I have personally felt how to be judged by appearance. Before, on two legs and today in a wheelchair. The people that knew me before my accident mostly treat me like before. But now, when I meet new people, example in a restaurant, sometimes the waiters address my wife, and ask what I want. Once I was in a restaurant, the waiter said, “you know that you got top pay for the food you order.. It’s not free”. Or they shout into my ear, as if its like that i`m hard of hearing, sitting in the chair. Its my legs, not my hearing. Just got to smile and let it pass. I learnt, that people that judge other that way, are often people that I would not have as friends. And besides, they must have bigger problems that my disability gives me. Disability, diagnoses, is to be found on different levels for us all. They are more or less disguised or covered by different ways of adapting and learning. We as humans are not perfect in any ways. It’s just about acceptance. Between people and all the quirks we all got more or less visible for others.
I`m following other bloggers in the same field as EEVBLOG, and some of the bloggers are ex Russians, German’s with a rather hard to follow accents and pronunciations.. But for me it’s all about the message.
But that’s just my opinion..
Erik