I have that exact snuggie! This video also brings up one of my biggest pet peeves, which is accessibility items being seen as lazy. This even extends to elevators, which OF COURSE WERE INVENTED FOR ACCESSIBILITY REASONS! But the looks I get when I use the elevator, just because my disability is not as visible. Smh forever.
I know this is an old video but wow, so many things I never considered before. Thank you so much! Not only did you open my eyes to these things but you helped me feel better about my own use of these products which has begun since becoming ill with fibro. You're an inspiration Annie and the other commenters are awesome too!
One of the items I see this going on with a lot is the comfort wipe. It's like a stick that holds your toilet paper so it makes it easier to wipe yourself in the bathroom. People were calling this "lazy", but they're actually really useful to people with trouble reaching back and those who just had surgery. Thank you for uploading this video!
Catching up on older vids of you I had missed. Anyone else watch this and get ideas for products to buy which you hadn't heard of before this video? 🖤💜💙💚❤🖤
I had never thought of the snuggie from an accessibility perspective before--shows how able-bodied folks like me can be a bit oblivious! I wonder if this kind of garment design has been used for outerwear at all (for withstanding cold outdoors or something)
My wrists are so bad some days, that I honestly consider getting the spaghetti fork. I mean??? A pain free way for me to eats my spaghetti?! Sign me uP.
Do you happen to have a link to the fork arm one???? That is AMAZING and would seriously help me! I'm having a harder time eating lately and this looks promising!
I am as frustrated as you are with able bodied people responding to so many of these products labeling them "lazy" and making fun, b/c my mind is wired to wonder if it has a better purpose being used for people with disabilities growing up with a disabled sister and being disabled now myself. So I just hate more of the world can't think this way. One that particularly bothers me lately is hair straightening solutions that are less likely to burn you and can be used with one hand, like heated brushes. Sure plenty of disabled people with all kinds of issues can use straight irons easily, and the majority of people who use straight irons tout them as the easier cheaper solution, but excuse me that with my shakey hands, and lack of experience I can't not cause myself injury with those things. And I love your videos by the way. You are one of m favorite disabled vloggers on RU-vid. The level of quality and types of videos you make is something I only hope to achieve someday. Keep at it!=)
I use so many aids aimed at "lazy" able bodied they are great lol I.e. i have electric choppers etc although they may have been aimed at disabled anyway not sure!
i actually thought the egg one was kinda funny and thought that it was made as a better way to crack eggs just looking at the comercials for it. but then my best friend brought it up to me that these products could be for people who might actually be for people who need them. but why cant the commericials be made for disabled people? who do they have to appeal to the able bodied for them to sell??? these day i try to do better at looking at a product and seeing it from a perspective of someone who may need it.
Able bodied people are appropriating our culture...lol....there is some truth to that though. Also, especially lately on youtube and on tv, I've seen able bodied people saying such and such is lazy, and like you, I immediately start thinking that this could have helped me, or this could have helped that disabled friend. I am glad I am not the only person who has been noticing these comments from people lately.
+Lisa M Definitely! And like I said I have no problem with people using products like these, in the same way I don't have problems with able bodied people using elevators (which were also created for the purposes of accessibility). Appropriation is harmful to disabled folks though when it comes to language and representation, like when people loosely use terms like "OCD" or "bipolar" as descriptors or insults, like when our disabilities or illnesses are used as thoughtless fashion extensions while people with disabilities and illnesses are rarely visible in the mainstream.
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