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Middle-aged wheelchair user wants chat

  • 25-04-2015 03:15PM
    #1
    LilyRose42
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10 ✭


    I'm looking to chat with other middle-aged wheelchair users (I'm in my early 40s). I've come across Disabilities'r'Us, but I don't know that there are other Irish people on there and I haven't seen any other disability specific chatrooms or sites in Ireland. We grew up in a very different society (you might even say world!) to today's world and I personally was very over-protected and find it hard to get over that. My self image was unrealistic, I feel, and now that my parents are gone, I think I may have been looking at myself as almost an appendage of my mother's. So having been looked after by adults so much, I feel as if my outlook is that of a person 20 years older than myself, but I don't have the experience to back that up. So I feel pretty misunderstood (Sob, sob . . .). Also, I'd be interested in joining something like a running club, but for people in wheelchairs - not wheelchair racing, so not like running, exactly, more strolling. Anyone else interested?


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  • #2
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,256 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    LilyRose, you are of course very welcome to chat on here, we would be delighted to attract more people into the forum, though of course we do not know - unless they tell us - that they are wheelchair users. Maybe if you wanted to keep it strictly to wheelchair users you might start a hosted forum, but you would need a few people interested before that would be a good solution.

    Good luck, it may take a while to get going while people find you, hopefully you will get some interest.


  • #3
    LilyRose42
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10 ✭LilyRose42


    Thanks Looksee. I'll give it some thought.


  • #4
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,811 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    I think it's a smashing idea, and a outdoor activity scene for wheelchair users has so many benefits it's difficult to imagine why no one has come up with it before.
    A notice in your local supermarket noticeboard might help, perhaps create a specific email address to direct peoples contacts to you.
    A thread here, perhaps later a sticky, might give a place to congregate as it builds momentum.
    Well done though, great idea.
    You might also consider able bodied partners or kids being included too, have a park or two with good paths in mind to use.


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