Just a short rant--I keep looking for groups on Facebook and "real life" that offer opportunities, tips, resources, etc for people with physical handicaps, but they are very hard to find and slip through my fingers as fast as I can find them. I've found a few groups on Facebook that seem to be abandoned. Others are only for people who want to ski, go rock climbing, compete in marathons, etc, even though the members are all paralyzed to some degree. My goals are not that lofty. I only want to live a normal life for a 50+ year old woman who likes to occasionally lunch out without suffering the indignity of getting trapped in a walker-eating doorway, shop in a store with aisles wide enough for people to limp through with mobility aids, enjoy a show or a sporting event in which I can be seated comfortably without the staff having to pass me on to three or more other people because no one knows how to "handle" a mobility aid and they can't figure out where to seat me.
Oh, I forgot to mention that many of the "disability" groups are mostly for the mentally-challenged, and the jury is still out of whether I fit that description, ha! And some are so vague in their description of what they are about and who their members are, I decide they aren't for me because I'm not looking for more confusion in my life right now.
The End.
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