I am sorry for any negative feelings you had reading the replies. Our questions do not come from personal prejudice, but from the commonly observed situation where people claim to be disabled in order to get an advantage, e.g. parking place. I know people who have disable parking stickers (for those unable to walk more than 200 feet), yet who go camping or go walking through the malls. [We won't even go into exagerated disability claims to get SSI benefits.]
When someone says they waited for a wheelchair, but then walked, the question naturally arises could they have walked in the first place? If you would first blame all the obese, older, or healthy people who have wrongfully claimed to be disabled, then you would find far greater acceptance and help for those truly disabled.
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