Why do many handicapped people expect special treatment?

Question

I work in a hotel and many handicapped people I meet always expect special treatment above and beyond what everyone else gets. Why?

Answer 1

Being handicapped is a frame of mind. Anyone can do anything if they want it bad enough. Those who cry "handicapped" are weak and a disgrace to tose with disabilities as a whole. The strong ones don't whine and cry, throw a pity party or expect a free handout.

Answer 2

Maybe because they NEED that special help and assistance???

Let me tell you something, a$$hole. Not all of us enjoy asking for extra help or special treatment. I'm almost blind, and I've worked very hard to be as self sufficient as possible. But there are times, especially when I'm alone, that I need a little extra help. And it KILLS me that I have to rely on someone else! Do you think that we enjoy having to make a spectacle of ourselves, and have soemone else witness our weakness? Maybe some of us do. Maybe there are some people out there who actually enjoy being given that special treatment, but I can guarantee that they are few and far between.

And I am SURE that there are a lot of non handicapped people who come to your hotel and also ask for and expect special treatment of one type or another.

I sincerely hope that nothing ever happens to you, that you remain in full custody of your health and 5 senses..because I pity you if you don't. You'll be the first one screaming for help and preferential treatment.

How insulting......

Answer 3

Most handicapped people dont expect special treatment..they do however expect that their needs be taken care of just like any other guest would in a hotel..since their needs are different than the general public then the hotel must cater to their special needs..just as you would should you become disabled.

Answer 4

Simple: because the life of a handicapped person is harder than yours, mine, or anyone else who is not handicapped.

I kind of know what you are getting at, though. I've met some rude, demanding handicapped people in my life. The general public needs to understand that being handicapped makes no one a saint. Handicapped people come in all types just like everyone else...they can be mean and nasty, too. I guess their saving grace is that they ARE handicapped, and perhaps have more of a reason to expect people to put up with their "demands".

If this is not what you meant, just ignore it. I don't want to put words in your mouth. : )

Answer 5

Handicap people don't ask for special treatment unless they need help.

And while we are on the topic of handicaps, I would like to address the issue of hidden disabilities.....I had a person where I work--he's a nurse, say "You got out of that car awful good for someone with a handicap placard on your car" !

As a nurse---that was a particularly ignorant remark for him to make. My disability is not one you can see. I can't throw my lungs into a wheel chair and push them around.
The nature of my illness prevents me from walking very far without getting out of breath. My lung disease is chronic and it will never get better--it will get worse....and will I continue to work until I am no longer able to do so.

Point---?????------Just because you can't see a disability doesn't mean someone isn't seriously ill.

Answer 6

In my experience most handicapped people just want to be treated like everyone else, if they act like they need special treatment then they probably do.

Answer 7

Could you give an example? I wonder if, by special treatment, you mean they want people to reach things that they can't reach or something like that. I mean, if a normally-abled person asked you, "Could you hand me that paper?" would you find it rude?

Disabled people that I know are usually quite humble and not demanding. I'm just curious about what you perceive as expecting special treatment.

Answer 8

Not all are of that ilk, many have physical limits and may need assistance, Mental limits may cause the need for assistance. One must in your own way judge who needs help more, those with physical and mental limitation, or those who think they are put out because they are called upon to assist those who need help. Which are you? The Good, The Bad, or the Ugly? If your the Good you would have never asked this question! Any human on this planet, who needs help, should be give help, only because it's the human thing to do!

Answer 9

Because we NEED the help. Maybe our legs don't work and we need someone to help us carry. Or we are on crutches and we cannot carry our own tray through a food line. I try to always politely ask and say please.

But it really makes me mad when Generation X'ers and Y'ers think that even asking for one extra moment's help is gonna ruin there lives. They will not help their fellow man at all. In one place I walked into, I walked right back out because a pretty Gen X's girl acted like helping me might make her break a nail, and we ALL KNOW what a tragedy that would be if her boyfriend "snoop dog" saw her actually break a sweat.

In my experience, older people will help me, but anyone under 30 will not. GROW UP. Learn to help them kindly, even if they aren't kind to you.

Answer 10

Simply because they are not able to do the same thing that "we" as normal every day functioning adults can do.

We can walk down the stairs, as they can not, so they need a special lift or elevator.

We can walk in a "chow line" as they can hardly manuever thier wheel chairs around when large groups of people are walking around them, impeding thier ability to manuever.

Those wheel chiar bound can not get into a "regular stall" in bathrooms, so they have to have larger stalls, accomodating wheel chairs and even hand rails so they can get back into thier wheel chiars when done.

If your not the type to "cater" to the disabled population, then maybe you might benefiet from getting another type of job, so that you wont have to "deal" with those of dissabilities...

I wish you well...

Jesse

Answer 11

Wow, I had been told that there exist real people who have no compassion, but I found it hard to believe.
Until I read this question.
Do you really think handicapped people should not recieve special treatment? Be careful how you answer...you may be one, one day.