Finally, there exists a Shit People Say to People With Disabilities video:
When I was single, and I got ‘the sex question’ as an unsuccessful pickup line, the conversation would go something like this:
Moron: Can you have sex?
Me: Yes, but if you have to ask, I won’t be having it with you.
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Should I be bopped for finding your response-quip both clever and amusing?
Oh, my word. I would stab someone. Wow. Actual quotes.
Scarily accurate quotes.
I’m glad I wasn’t taking a drink at the time I read that. Sounds exactly like something a friend of mine would say.
I think, if memory serves me, that someone once asked if my guidedog helps me have sex.
Seriously. This shit writes itself.
If someone asked me that about my service dog, I would answer, “Yes, I’m into bestiality. Care for a threesome?”
Did you watch The Last Leg during the Paralympics? Great show , really opened up the debate about what is OK, what did you think of the coverage?
Jim
I didn’t actually watch them, but I enjoyed the commentary around them, especially from Disability Bitch: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Disability-Bitch/8547011787?ref=ts
Lorna, this had me chuckling since it depicts what a pain it is to deal with stupidity. Really, can you tell me where the smart people have gone? Enlighten me and give me hope for personkind! 🙂
The guy at 00:38 did the pitying look to a T! Helps to see this video though, I think I may have said one of those quotes once or twice (not the sex one though!).
Actual quotes…and yet I am not surprised.
[…] awesome blogger friend Lorna did a post on this video over at “Gin and Lemonade”: http://ginlemonade.wordpress.com/2012/09/18/the-answer-is-yes/. I had never seen the video before, and found myself nodding through most of it. People […]
Can we race?
A secret, I’ve thought about that.
But I know I’d lose.
I don’t have the upper body strength of a Greek God.
I s’pose this is the part where I say that when Sarge and I were choosing quotes for our wedding invites, we arm-wrestled for one of them. I got carried away, and forgot to let him win.
Hahaha!
What? No head patting?
You have probably also heard “Did you have an accident?” and “Will you get better?”, and “How long have you been like this?”, and “You are so brave!” (How do they know that?). Hat’s off to all those who either exercise restraint and mountains of courtesy – or, conversely, come up with great responses like yours!
Allison (pusher of partner’s wheelchair). (“Yes, do you want details?”)