Thoughts on the new Power Wheels ride on wild thing? To me it looks very much like an electric wheel chair and thought that it was in bad taste to make a toy out of something disabled people need and often have a hard time getting. Then again I’m ablebodied and might be thinking too much into a children’s toy…
I had no idea what you were talking about so I looked it up and my first reaction was a creepily realistic vision of child-me screaming, “WHOA!”
Look at this thing!
I wish my wheelchair looked like that when I was a kid. Hell, I wish my wheelchair looks like that as a 24 year old grad student!
I think you’re coming at this all wrong, not because you’re thinking too much about a children’s toy, but because you’re thinking too much about what would offend wheelchair-users when you’re a Walker. I mean, the last I checked, you Walkers all seem to like standing for some reason, but you don’t see me getting a bad taste in my mouth whenever I see one of those nifty hoverboard scooters that takes standing to a whole new level So why would you (or specifically, why would we as wheelchair-users) be upset that this toy takes sitting to a whole new level? A really cool level at that? It’s no different.
Besides these things are actually way cheaper than pediatric wheelchairs! Why aren’t we having kids use these instead of the hospitals chairs? Wait, I just read this article, people are beginning to use them as wheelchairs:
Yeah, this gets absolutely no criticism from me! On the contrary, this is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen, both from a toy standpoint and a disability standpoint. 10/10 PowerWheels! My fourth-grade-self-who-was-too-poor-to-afford-you-but-buttered-up-to-the-rich-kid-in-elementary-school-because-he-had-a-Chevy-Silverado respected you and my 24-year-old-grad-student-self continues to respect you! You get a Gatsby gif!
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