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WHY WHEELCHAIR USERS ARE AFRAID OF GOING OUT

The fear of wheelchair travel is something that can't be easily overcome!

By Armaghan SiddiquiPublished 4 years ago 3 min read
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Over the past years, the wheelchair has become the most important part of our society. If you are aged and have to travel with family. If you are suffering from very serious health injury then a wheelchair has always been supportive at that point.

Even nowadays airlines are having a power wheelchair for their customers. They can feel comfortable. An appropriate wheelchair provides users the freedom to move around. Allowing the user to access day to day physical activity. they push around conducting activities of daily living.

A power wheelchair provides comfort and less fatigue with a greater ability to interact with the environment. There is still a mystery that why some people found themselves dreadful by traveling in a wheelchair. so here are some of the reasons.

Lack of Confidence

Confidence is a key to move in society especially when you are a kid. Unfortunately for disable child parents do not allow their kid to move outside alone with a power wheelchair. Due to this a child with a wheelchair is always mentally disturbed.

He gets dishearten when he saw other children performing sports and traveling with their own feet with there families. and that leads toward disappointments. Here parents play a key role to motivate their children.

Being Bullied

The fear of being bullied in a wheelchair has to lead the disable people to be a part of social isolation. More than one in three people with a learning disability said that being bullied is one of the things they worry about. They go out, but self-motivation is much needed for these people.

Fear of Being Lost

Wheelchair users are afraid to go out alone because the biggest fear they have with a wheelchair is the fear of being lost. People with a learning disability feel reluctant to leave their homes. They avoid to attend hospital visits or enjoy social activities because they have a fear of being lost.

Anxiety

Having a disability leads to depression and anxieties. Growing up with anxieties has become a very big part of the life of a wheelchair user. Anxiety would build up about not knowing the way around, which leads to people that they should not go anywhere.

There are a lot of places people felt that they should not go. Anxieties lead towards fear and isolation because a normal person can move in a society without having a fear of being JUDGED.

This is the main cause that this mental approach leads towards anxieties by which a person does not feel comfortable by traveling in a wheelchair.

Discrimination

Discrimination is a fact of life for many groups of people with disabilities. especially when a person is in a wheelchair. People with a wheelchair gets emotionally hit while sitting in gatherings. While traveling with there families they suffer discrimination.

Disable life is a huge mental burden for people surviving with there disabilities. Losing mobility doesn’t have to mean living locked up in a nursing room neither does losing confidence to speak. People with such health issues live in there home in the community.

Fear of Academics

In some institutions, the wheelchair is restricted. some institutions has some rules to provide a wheelchair for disabled persons. Students become a tool for mental torture for wheelchair users. and that is probably a factor by which many people find wheelchair frightening.

They are afraid that needing a wheelchair means that they are being trapped in a cage. They felt a lack of freedom.

Institutionalization

People get horrified by wheelchair because people associate a wheelchair with institutionalization. They thought that very terrifying thing happen to them in a wheelchair. and due to this reason, disabled people are not ready to go for their proper treatments.

We need people to understand and teach them that no one needs to live in an institution for the rest of their life. But it is important to understand that complete treatment must be taken.

No Entrance

“SORRY, no more wheelchairs allowed”. In certain venues, airplanes, city buses, and amusement parks wheelchair are not allowed.

That is the main reason some people do not travel even with families. In very certain places a wheelchair is allowed and people can go out to hang out with there families.

Traveling by Airline

Nowadays airline often has a wheelchair for travelers for their safety. Still, people found this difficult because these rules can be very limiting.

If the flight gets delayed or if there is a certain problem in plain then passengers have to change their seats. Wheelchair users found it difficult so most people avoid traveling long distances.

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Armaghan Siddiqui

Armaghan Siddiqui is a digital marketeer, blogger and entrepreneur. He loves to write on topics like digital marketing, health, fitness, lifestyle and life hacks where he can shares his experience and knowledge with others.

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