Before there is any misunderstanding, the point of this is "Don't look down on disabled people, even fat ones, and their aids. You never know when you can be in the same boat!" but I would also like to deconstruct another harmful myth about people's reaction to disability that's on the internet: the idea that there are, on one hand, unbearably self-righteous SJW's who have never had a negative emotion towards the vulnerable, ever and on the other side, nazi-sounding who say that we should "put the disable out of their misery", one horrible way or another.
Truth is, those words that Mittaines say in frame one and two, I have thought them in similar situations: at the mall, in a rush, uber-grumpy and wanting to get the hell out of there!
An hour later, out of the stressful mall, I come back to my senses and realize that the wheelchair or crutches that were in my way for five "long" minutes are in the way of that disabled person day in and day out without any break and that the grumpy people in a rush like me are everywhere they go.
That fat guy at Wal Mart in the scooter? You don't know his medical record and neither do I. He might have a degenerative disorder, a recovering broken leg and wants to move around as autonomously as possible in a World full of grumpy people in a rush. Whatever he has, it can fall on you or me without warning.
...and even if he's just fat, nobody ever lost a pound because of a dirty look!
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