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To ask a disabled young adult to move

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SandlakeRd · 17/10/2017 21:10

DH and I were out for tea earlier and there was a group of young adults in wheelchairs with carers/parents waiting for a table. The wheelchairs were electric so the people were "driving" themselves.

They were waiting in the area near the toilets. I stood back for a couple of mins to see if the group was moving but they weren't so I asked one of the wheelchair users who was mainly blocking the way if he would move. He said yes and did and I went to the loo.

All fine I thought until I came out and DH said he couldn't believe what I had done and that I should have waited or gone when we got home. My view was I did exactly what I would have done if they had not been in a wheelchair so it was fine and the boy didn't seem bothered. I am doubting my attitudes now though.

Was I being unreasonable?

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SchadenfreudePersonified · 17/10/2017 22:52

Your husband's attitude is very patronising - as a PP said - You spoke to them as you would to anyone else. And why shouldn't you? They are like anyone else.

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