#lifewithnotags

I'm a care provider and if you don't know what that means it means I take care of people with physical mental disabilities handicaps however you want to say it. Here's the thing I'm not one to be easily offended usually and I try really hard not to automatically think bad of people when they mess up or show discomfort with something they don't understand. But there something that I've noticed because of my work which I've been doing for over 12 years now and that is people really don't know how to approach people who are different from them. They either try really hard to pretend they don't see them or they try really really hard to be overly nice to them. Which ends up coming across as condescending or they just stare. None of these are good responses. Tonight I was out with a client and I came across one of the overly friendly condescending responses to my client. My client handled it with grace and it just made me angry. Why are they automatically approaching somebody without properly introducing themselves talking to my client like their moron. Just because my client is in a wheelchair doesn't mean they're mentally deficient. I mean if you approach somebody who wasn't in a wheelchair in the way you're approaching my client they would think you're nuts. Its best just to approach everybody on the same playing field in the same way just please don't be condescending or automatically put labels to my client about their mental capabilities or anything about them just because they're in a wheelchair or just because they look different or active different.