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There are plenty of people in the world who can take a few steps but use a wheelchair so they can live a more fulfilling life, since they can’t walk far.
Saying “it’s a miracle” to this is quite shitty behaviour
100%, and it makes life difficult for albilatory wheelchair users when people assume they’re faking a disability when they exit the chair
Stuff like this enables bullying of disabled people. Sometimes they can walk, but only so far. Invisible disabilities suck so much. There’s always a Karen than thinks you only need a wheel chair if you’re paralyzed and that’s simply not the case.
It’s a tricky line to walk.
On the one hand, you are absolutely right that ability to hobble over a few feet from your chair does not mean the chair is obviously not needed.
On the other, wheelchairs are a very popular prop for grifting folks.
It’s pretty damn near impossible to make an informed judgement on such a matter in an instant, and lots of people do exploit that.
No. It isn’t.
So it’s easy, which path did you like, giving anyone with access to a prop wheelchair however much they are trying to get out of you, or denying aid to anyone that ever managed to get up out of a wheelchair, however briefly?
Wow, you really thought you were cooking with that one.
Here’s a thought: if someone’s in a wheelchair, presume it’s useful to them to get around.
There’s no step 2.
They should make wheelchairs with built in toilets
Just cut a hole and roll onwards.
It would be too sloshy.
Commode chairs exist (for rolling from bed to over the toilet or using with a pot when the toilet isn’t accessible) but they usually don’t have the big pushable wheels, just little casters, so someone else has to drive.
Leg bags with catheters also exist and can be worn in a wheelchair.
But it’s also legit for a person with (for instance) a bad heart or hips or back to need a wheelchair while being able to stand or walk briefly. Perhaps enough to get to the hedge but not a farther-away public toilet, if there even is one.
