If you met someone with a limp

[ilean]

would you comment on it?

No

Probably not in the first sentence.....

What? No!

Is this a reverse OP?

Comment on someone's limp?

Generally, no - not f it's the first time you've ever met the person.

If you know them well however and it's a new health thing, then you'd ask what they'd done.

Hard to tell from your OP

Well I do have a limp and everybody bloomin comments on it! Yesterday senior management felt the need to question me about it as I was sitting in a very busy office

No but my MIL would. When my SIL introduced us to her very new boyfriend. Mil announced that would have to ask him why his legs were so bow legged. Not a limp but what she expected the poor guy to say in response to her rude question I don't know.

Depends on circumstances.

If a stranger in the street passing by who said good morning, no.

If a friend or work colleague, then yes.

If introduced to someone for the first time, then I might find out more info from others before making personal comments or observations.

Yes it's a reverse OP (I think ) I am 30 and I have a limp, anyway.
I'm a regular, I NC because I daresay this could out me.

Purple - that's totally unacceptable. Did you feel confident enough to speak to your senior management, after the event?

My initial thought was 'of course not' but then a few weeks ago I was on a course and met a woman who seemed very nice and we got chatting and she mentioned having had an operation on her back. As we were leaving - walking out together chatting some more I thought I noticed she had a limp and I did comment - "Oh do you have a limp, is that from your back?" I was going to offer her a lift home but she said the walking helped. Afterwards I thought maybe I was being a bit rude, she could have had a false leg she hadn't mentioned or anything. I wasn't meaning to be rude though, we could almost have become friends.

Someone I know who doesn't usually have one - I'd ask about it, not in any other circumstances though.

I tend not to comment on anything like that, unless the person seems to be drawing my attention to it or seems to be assumimg I know more about them than they do.

I imagine having people comment on your limp can fwt very boring and annoying if you are trying to just get on with life and ignore it yourself.

No, if they don't mention it themselves then they don't want to talk about it; I've always thought that way.

I do specifically mean someone you have just met - or perhaps someone you don't know in a personal capacity, would be a better description. So workmate type situations too.

Purple

Op people always ask me. 'Oh what have you done? Have you hurt yourself?' No, I always walk like this ffs

I was very embarrassed and I made a complaint! I am asked all the time and generally it doesn't bother me as I think people don't really mean anything by it but this guy was out of line, he didn't even back off when he realised I was embarrassed

No, not at all. very inappropriate.

If they introduced the subject fine but to just say 'what's wrong with you?' upon first introduction is rude and potentially upsetting for the other person.

yes exactly Spotty

Maybe we should have a limpers' support thread

a limp what?

Mitchy that made me giggle

Certainly not immediately, and almost certainly not on a first meeting. But depending on how conversation went, I might ask - mostly out of professional interest as I am a massage therapist and if it's due to sciatica or something, then there's a chance I could do something to help.

Oh god I would probably cheerfully ask what you'd done to yourself I promise I will keep my big mouth shut from now on!