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Oh yeah, absolutely, it is ludicrous when people do that.

If you have decent sidewalks, intetsections that are not a 1/2 mile apart, and god forbid, regular low grade inclines at crossings and other places, so that a wheel chair bound person could actually get around?

Well then blamo, throw a back pack on the frame of your chair/scooter, now you can actually go to a local bodega and buy some groceries!

Makes it easier for people who use a cane or crutches, or have a non obvious outwardly presenting neurological or muscular condition of some kind, etc.

But, US infrastructure broadly isn't ADA compliant in the poorer areas seriously disabled people most commonly live... and we literally can't, or struggle much more seriously in physically getting to an actual town hall.

Fucking... after a two months of aquatherapy, well now all I have the option to do is show up for basically the night swim at the therapy pool.

My problem is not that I need directed care ... I was taught the excercizes/stretches, learned them, remembered them. I do the ones I can at home, out of a pool, every damned day.

The problem is it costs 5 dollars, in cash only, to attend.

I can't fucking get to an ATM!

I told them this and they just said uh well you'll figure it out.

Nope, never did.

There are no ATMs within over a mile of a walking roundtrip from me.

And the sidewalks don't even exist near where I live, and/or they are cratering into sinkholes or erupting out of the ground. No joke, there's one spot where the ground expanded and the sidewalk is entirely snapped in half, at about 40 degree angles.

But at this point, I am extremely used to falling through the cracks in systems, that are designed based on assumptions... that make no sense to hold, because ostensibly the entire point of these systems is that they are to help those who do not have those basic societal assumptions.

You tell people in these systems this, and every fucking time, no one has ever told them this before, this thought had never occured to them, or they get angry at you.

It is astounding.