I don't treat them in any particular way. If they have to use a motorized wheelchair and I just have to stand in their way at the store to pick an item, I will do so and then give them space. I'd only help people, disabled or not, if they ask me or if they are in the middle of an accident, like if all their oranges suddenly fell out of a plastic bag i'd help pick up no matter who the owner was. I think it comes down to who you are used to see. When I was a kid, I had never seen a black or Asian person, never a blind person or a person in a wheel chair. Now I live in a place where there is such a mix of people that you wouldn't believe it. So if i was to stare at someone who was different in any way, I have to stare at more than half of the people. And they would have to stare at me as well because I'm a bit odd and look a bit odd as well.

The only think I try to really not do is keep too close to someone in a wheel chair because it hurts as hell if they accidentally drive your feet over!

The only time i breach protocol is if someone who is mentally challenged or mentally different in some other way will approach me. Then I will actually return their chit-chat. I should say, in this country chit-chat with strangers is basically a capital punishment, so if I do that, people will stare at me. I don't care. If they wanna talk, it is fine.

I have more problems with beggars. If I'm not going to give them anything where they are huddled up in blankets in the freezing cold, outside a store or similar, I just look far, far into the distant. They say Hello but I don't even reply. I know being treated like this over and over must feel awful, but if I don't plan to give I don't want to give them false hopes either.