urbancripple

[urbancripple]

What Do You Want Me to Cover in 2025?

What topics do you want to see me cover in 2025?

[urbancripple]

Do you have a post on how to pack for a flight, while flying as a wheelchair user with no assistance? If not, I would appreciate it.

This should do it. https://urbancripple.com/a-manual-wheelchair-users-guide-to-flying if not, let me know and I'll put something more specific together.

[urbancripple]

Working on New Content

Working on new stuff for 2025 (I know I haven't posted anything in about a year). Wanted to remind folks that my inbox is open to disability related questions. If it's one I've already answered, I'll send you a link. If it's new (and unique) I'll answer it on my main site and post a link

[urbancripple]

Shameless Support Plug

If you wanna help me cover stuff like hosting costs, you can click on links like this one and then buy something (anything) and I'll get a kick back.

Wanted to call this out since it is Prime Day and all that.

Thanks for your support!

[urbancripple]

New Cup Holder Recommendation

Found this recommended on Reddit: https://amzn.to/46Zs0Lm (affiliate link)

Here's a photo of the holder on a chair:

[urbancripple]

Yes, this is a long article. Yes, there are a lot of names of people involved. You - yes you - person who is scrolling while taking a shit, should read this. Just sit and read it and take it all in. Especially if you care about accessibility in gaming.

[urbancripple]

Stupid Show Idea: The Great British Fake-Off

12 of Britain’s top knock-off artists and counter fitters compete to recreate the items from the world’s best-known brands.

Gucci, Prada, handbags, and sneakers. You get the idea. Each contestants’ work is judged by a pair of authenticators hired by major resellers

The finale “show stopper” is just “The 20 pound note”.

Winner gets arrested.

[urbancripple]

Disability Thought Experiment

It can be difficult to understand how inaccessibility affects disabled people. So, I created a small thought experiment to help people better understand the issue.

Imagine accessibility issues as a series of awkward, and repetitive conversations you have to take part in. Whether it’s opening a door or moving through a restaurant, you have to talk to someone before you can continue. How many times will you stop and talk to someone before you stop entering these spaces? How many conversations are you willing to have before it’s no longer worth the struggle to go about your day?

Every time you want to open a door, you have explain to the person in charge of it that you need to enter. Then, wait for them to find the key, unlock the door, and allow you through it. Every door, every time.

When you board a bus, it’s a thirty second conversation. You tell the driver you need to board, where you will sit, and where you will be getting off.

Stairs are a nightmare as it takes a forty‐five to sixty‐second explanation with someone at either end to go up or down.

Restaurants are agonizing as you talk your way through narrow passageways of people. You spend a few seconds with each person, apologizing for interrupting their meal.

What if there’s no one to talk to? What if there’s no one watching the stairs? Or the bus driver can’t understand you? What if the door attendant is on their lunch break? What then? You sit there awkwardly conversing with passers by. They’ll smile, nod, and maybe even take a second or two to lament the utter lack of available door or stair attendants. But they cannot help you.

This is what it is like to be disabled and have to navigate through a world that is not designed for you. You’re constantly having to explain yourself to complete the most basic of tasks. This is why real accessibility is so important for people with disabilities. Without it, we spend all our time stuck in these “conversations” instead of doing what we need to do.

[urbancripple]

Cool and good and totally normal and not at all terrifying and bad and enraging /sarcasm

[urbancripple]

If Capitalism could make motivational posters, I feel like this would be the one they would put up after every "once in a lifetime" historical event that happens each week.

I hate it.

[urbancripple]

9.99 Plus Tax

If corporations are going to migrate to electronic price tags so they can do surge pricing on the stuff we need, they better have the fucking decency to finally include the sales tax in the price of the item. At least give us this one thing while you further deepen this technocratic hellscape

[urbancripple]

so. I (17) had a TBI 2 yrs ago that I'm still recovering from that wrecked my vestibular system along w a bunch of other shit. I use forearm crutches for balance and that's been fine for me and my pt hasn't recommended anything else. my mom just bought me a wheelchair from the thrift store?? not only without me asking, but with me having told her for weeks not to every time she brought it up. I have no idea what to do now? there are very very rare times when I've used borrowed ones from the mall or museum we're at on a trip where I really can't do the walking for so long, but bringing one that's *mine* just feels wrong to me when I haven't been prescribed one? idfk. looking for advice from the community ig.

I doubt a thrift store wheelchair is going to be helpful. I'm guessing it is one of the hospital-style ones that's hard to push. There are health-risks to using a chair, especially one that isn't built for you and may not have been very well maintained.

But if the chair does help you, there's nothing wrong with using it, even if the chair wasn't built for you specifically. I wrote a whole guide for new chair users, if that helps.

Either way, don't stress over it.

[urbancripple]

Hi, are abled people allowed to follow you?

Yes. Why wouldn’t they be?

[urbancripple]

I use a manual wheelchair because of fatigue and dizzyness and leg weakness. I can actually walk longer than I can stand. The problem is, I cannot get the chair into my car. I am not strong enough. I was thinking of getting a rollator. They are lighter, compared to my 40 lb chair, and easier to fit. Do you think this is a good idea? And do you know a cheaper brand that still has the seat and wheels?

I don't often say this but here we go....

I actually think that's a good idea.

If you can walk alright but you can't stand very long, that's the problem a rollator was meant to solve. And rollators are fairly light, easy to obtain, and not terribly expensive. As far as brands go....

I have no idea. But I'm damn sure someone else on here does.