As a kid who needs some aid to move around its really not cool at cons if you have a wheelchair as a prop for your character that you are cosplaying who can’t walk. Its super super uncool and here is why
- you take up elevator space that us who need an elevator fucking need
- you trick people into giving you the benefits they would give wheelchair users whether you mean to or not
- you make it so people like me get told ‘NICE PROP’ all day when we are actually in our chairs
- you are a burden to anyone that has to help you with that bulky thing
- you are not respecting the community
- you don’t know what you are doing bro trust me do not just think you can be in a wheelchair for a few days a con wheelchairs take a bit of work
Now listen if you have a friend that has a wheelchair and will let you borrow it take some photos outside of con, have some fun, but never use one in con and never NEVER N E V E R take a wheelchair from a group that has wheelchairs for actually disabled people to you. If you are stealing a wheelchair that the con is providing to people that need it or from any group of medical care providing peeps then seriously wtf man actual people need those your photos ain’t that important. That’s all I got please tell your friends
peace out