Having a friend that cannot get around, you see all sorts of things that you didn t realize before. I remember going places with him and having to help him in and out of restaurants and other public places. It is tough. People even treat you as if you are stupid or something. They talk to you loud and slow, and often they would turn to me and answer me instead of him.
Physical disabilities are just that, and they don t extend to the brain.
You d never know it though, if you listen to people sometimes. So anyway, at the zoo, we were looking for wheelchairs. The young student worker finally brought us a wheelchair, which cost five dollars to use. You do, if you have to carry things around, or need to minimize the actual distance to where there is a chair. I also witnessed people who were perfectly able-bodied parking their cars in the handicapped parking spaces.