Post by Knight on May 27, 2014 19:40:43 GMT -8
I want to have a rant here, but first, I need to show you the definitions of the word "disabled", since I live in housing for the disabled and elderly.
According to Merriam-Webster's dictionary:
Main Entry: disabled
Function: adjective
Date: 1633
: incapacitated by illness or injury ; also : physically or mentally impaired in a way that substantially limits activity especially in relation to employment or education
According to Google:
adjective: disabled
(of a person) having a physical or mental condition that limits movements, senses, or activities.
Now, if you look around where I live, the word "disabled" means old or mentally incapacitated. Simply being physically disabled gets you treated like less than a human, like less than the dirt under people's feet.
If you guys can remember the post about my new apartment back in February, this post will be related to that post, but I couldn't find it.
I moved into a more accessible apartment, which sadly, is inhabited by tenants who are 60+ years old who hate me. They have found any tiny reason to file complaints to try and get me evicted. I got a noise complaint when my son and mother were visiting one evening, and they stayed the night. All we were doing was watching movies, cooking food, and playing with toys with my 3-year-old son. Now, I got another complaint because my boyfriend and I were talking quietly in the hallway on our way outside late at night. And we were hardly talking any louder than a whisper!
After I got Milo (my kitten), one of my neighbors was extremely rude to me, saying that therapy pets are prescribed too readily and they are pointless, and that there are too many people with therapy pets in our building. There are 3-4 pets in the whole 3-story apartment building!
I am never anything but respectful to these people, and there are only a couple fellow residents who will return a greeting in the hallway. The rest of the time, they make rude remarks about my wheelchair use and sneer at me.
I feel like I am being discriminated against because I am physically disabled and young. In North Dakota, 99.9% of the people who get to park in handicapped spots are simply elderly people. I get disrespected and judged by elderly people whenever I park in a blue badge spot, whenever I'm waiting in line at the pharmacy, and now the rudeness has spread to my home. The only choice I can see to get out of this unhealthy atmosphere is to move again. I've lived here for a short 4 months, and it is unbearable!
It's bad enough that I have to deal with the guys hitting on me, devotees chasing me online, and my regular life things, and now I have to deal with my own neighbors trying to make me homeless.
Guess it's time to try and move.
When i feel this unhappy about certain areas of my life..i problem solve and deal with each issue one by one.
if you think and extrude positivity...it will find you ! 
