Hail Hephaestos! -E-
For my entire existence, I have struggled with a deformity in my leg. I can walk, but it’s slow, and it hurts me.
Hermes, Apollon, Ares, all the gods, really, would outpace me no matter how slowly they tried to walk. They weren’t ever mean about it. They just always forgot.
Everyone forgot. My own temples had stairs. MY OWN TEMPLES HAD STAIRS. That was just how they made temples, and no one ever gave it a second thought.
I want you to know that there are people out there who you aren’t thinking about. Maybe they have an illness, visible or otherwise, and easily get tired. Maybe they have a physical issue that makes stairs painful or impossible. Maybe they can’t read your handouts because they have a visual impairment. Maybe they can’t hear your inspiring speeches when your back is to them.
This is all I ask: give it…
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I do recognize belatedly, though, that part of my assumption about stairs vs accessibility is grounded in the modern technology of wheelchairs.
It’s not actually a given in a pre-wheelchair world that a person who finds walking painful and limps would find a ramp any easier than stairs, or even that stairs would be harder at all…
Which just goes to show, we really *can’t* make assumptions about what kind of accommodation people need. We have to take responsibility for asking, and for trying to cover reasonable ground for likely needs, but most importantly, we have to be willing to listen when someone brings up a need we never anticipated.
-E-
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