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‘I live a beautiful life’: What wheelchair users wish you knew – and what to stop asking
July 21, 2021 /
“What’s wrong with you?” “How did this happen?”
People in wheelchairs encounter these questions regularly – and want people to know they are not OK to ask.
“I hate when people ask me ‘What happened?'” Lucy Trieshmann, 26, says. “That question reduces and objectifies me, as if the only thing interesting about me is why I use a wheelchair.”
David Oliver
USA TODAY
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