Sorry to whine and sorry if it's in the wrong forum.

I don't like to go out much these days, but whenever I do, people just have to stare at me and my wheelchair as if it is some kind of foreign space object and I sit on it like an alien on a throne. I get the same looks if I go out anywhere with my kids I get judged at first sight! People are not understanding at all.

It drives me nuts- it's a wheelchair. I'm a young adult. I hate being in a wheelchair enough as it is, and it drives me completely crazy when people have to-

a) stare at it
b) ask me why I'm in a wheelchair
c) make comments about how I seem too young to be in a wheelchair to whoever they're with
d) gawk at me when I try to open doors or whatever. if you're going to stare at me having trouble doing something, jaw hanging open, you can offer to help!



I don't want to be super grumpy, and I know I've been in a bad place lately, and that I'm irked easily, but there's nothing shocking about a wheelchair! I hate having the reduced mobility, my house hasn't been fixed up yet because we may move, I'm not used to it at all, and when strangers ask pestering questions about it, it makes me feel worse.

Other people can be so senseless to situations and they make me feel like worthless rubbish Is it even possible to think of how the other person feels before they go and judge?