How to Use Spoon Theory to Explain Your Energy to Someone Who Isn’t Disabled
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Why RHR Exists
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.
Fitness, nutrition, 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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Understanding The Lingo
Disability has its own vocabulary, and most of it gets learned the hard way. In an appointment where somebody uses a word you don’t know. On a form asking whether you need a reasonable modification or a reasonable accommodation, as though the difference is obvious. In a denial letter that turns on a phrase nobody explained.
The words matter more than they should. Asking a Medicaid waiver about a ramp can get you a no, where asking about environmental accessibility adaptations gets you a form. Same request, different answer, because one of them is the term the system recognizes.This is a plain glossary. What the terms mean, which ones are legal categories rather than descriptions, and where to go for more when a definition isn’t enough. It isn’t exhaustive, but it’s the language that comes up most often.
