How to Use Spoon Theory to Explain Your Energy to Someone Who Isn’t Disabled
Read more: How to Use Spoon Theory to Explain Your Energy to Someone Who Isn’t DisabledThe problem isn’t usually that people don’t believe you. It’s that they can’t picture it. When you say you’re too tired to come, what they hear is the tired they know. The tired after a long week, the tired that…
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For people living in a chair,
not just sitting in one.
Most health advice quietly assumes you can stand up. Rolling Health Revolution is what is left when you take that assumption out. This is health and wellness for wheelchair users, written by a powerchair user.
Seated fitness, nutrition, skin and body care, gear and home accessibility, travel, benefits and money, work, dating, parenting, and mental health. The parts of life on wheels that mainstream wellness advice skips, and the practical details it gets wrong. Written for wheelchair users, and for the caregivers and family who are in it with them.
Disabled people are the largest minority group and the least alike. No one site gets this right for everybody, but RHR hopes to shed light where we can.
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A Space For Wellness Built For Us
Most health and wellness content assumes a body that stands. Exercise guides assume legs. Nutrition advice assumes a kitchen you can reach into. Mental health resources suggest getting outside like it’s free. None of that is wrong. It just wasn’t written with anyone like us in mind.None of that is wrong. It just wasn’t written with anyone like me in mind, and that’s a different problem.
The variables are different when you sit. Pressure sores instead of sore feet. Transfers instead of steps. Equipment that insurance calls a convenience. None of that shows up in a wellness article, so the advice gets quietly ignored, or worse, it convinces people that failing at health is a personal failing. It isn’t.
This site is what I wish I’d had. What insurance covers and what it writes off. Which equipment is worth the money and which ends up in a cupboard. What to ask for by name, because the answer changes depending on the words you use.
