Posted by baseball55 on October 18, 2013, at 20:14:52
In reply to Re: I must be a mess, posted by alexandra_k on October 18, 2013, at 19:21:51
Several years ago I had a bad accident which thoroughly destroyed my ankle and I needed major surgery to fix it. Over several months, I went from crutches and a cast, to crutches and a boot, to crutches when walking, to one crutch, then to a cane.
I found that when I was using crutches, people would ask what happened -- assuming I was injured and recovering. When I went to a cane, people stopped asking -- assuming I was disabled and it was too depressing/embarrassing to raise the topic.
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