Accessibility

loony
loony Community Member Posts: 29 Contributor
edited February 2025 in Everyday life

I’m growing increasingly frustrated by access challenges forced on me by society or bad buildings design, so I have written this poem. Please let me know yr thoughts

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  • DaveDee
    DaveDee Community Member Posts: 28 Contributor

    Your poem should be sent to all Local Councils and organisations.

    It does have a lot of positive thoughts in it and not a critical slant on how physically impaired cope.

  • loony
    loony Community Member Posts: 29 Contributor

    thanks DaveDee that’s good to hear, I’m looking at where best to promote it because I believe nit needs to be out there

  • Kim8
    Kim8 Community Member Posts: 30 Contributor

    It's very well written and I agree it should be sent to all councils.

  • frozenpelvis
    frozenpelvis Community Member Posts: 62 Contributor

    thank you very poignant, I agree it should be sent to the local authorities/government to illustrate the struggles of the disabled.

  • GalDriver
    GalDriver Community Member Posts: 137 Empowering

    Well done, loony. Yep, get it out there. I don't know where though. :-(

  • Jellihead
    Jellihead Community Member Posts: 83 Empowering

    @loony

    Can I copy this and read it out in the next Carer Partnership Strategy Board meeting that I will attend in April please?

  • loony
    loony Community Member Posts: 29 Contributor

    Jellihead, any promotion I can get it welcome, can you give me some more details about your group please

  • kitsmum
    kitsmum Community Member Posts: 138 Empowering

    It's a great poem and true to life . I could totally identify. Well done. We'll all have to think of ways to promote it

  • DaveDee
    DaveDee Community Member Posts: 28 Contributor

    As a member of a local Residents Association, this could be a platform to share the poem with the community groups in the area.

  • loony
    loony Community Member Posts: 29 Contributor

    thanks everybody I’m sharing to Facebook community groups but think it should go more public and to specialised groups

  • kittyruth
    kittyruth Community Member Posts: 25 Contributor

    I think you poem is really great at describing exactly how you feel but at the same time makes me cross at the world for you and mad that you have to feel like that.

  • IrishManc
    IrishManc Community Member Posts: 112 Empowering

    Although not physically disabled myself, I know that a lot of this also applies to public transport, especially coaches, ferries and trains, not just here in the U.K. but also in my native Ireland - if I have to struggle on and off overcrowded “sardine can” trains with a heavy suitcase at train stations, especially when changing trains to catch a ferry, then I can only imagine what it is like for wheelchair users - the attitudes of the staff at these companies also needs to massively improve, where they regard disabled passengers as being an inconvenience and as troublemakers - attitudes like this are totally unacceptable

  • Holly_Scope
    Holly_Scope Posts: 5,307 Online Community Team

    @loony this is a brilliant poem. I've announced it so it stands out on the recent activities. ☺️ Thanks so much for sharing.

  • Pickle72
    Pickle72 Community Member Posts: 35 Empowering

    Brilliant poem!.
    Thanks for sharing. X

  • loony
    loony Community Member Posts: 29 Contributor
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/984778#Comment_984778

    thank you I want to get it out there but not sure where’s best to share x

  • Steve_in_The_City
    Steve_in_The_City Scope Member Posts: 818 Trailblazing

    @loony Just right on! If I were a poet I could have written that myself! Everything you mentioned, been there, done that, got the t shirt! It describes the access difficulties disabled people face all the time. Thanks for such a pertinent piece of poetry.

  • onebigvoice
    onebigvoice Scope Member Posts: 994 Connected
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/984679#Comment_984679

    @loony.

    ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT. I would like to say if possible like DaveDee to actually send this to my Council as we are looking in Cardiff at Problem Parkers and parking on Foot paths, where Wheel Chair and pram access is being blocked, but also for children, parking that means they have to walk on the road to get past. Pavement is for Pedestrians, Scooters (also including Motorised) Bikes (including Motorised) Snake boards and Skate boards, can't even get people in a pedestrian maked direction to be on the right side or bikes to dismount?

    I hope you don't mind but I am going to write a poem as well.

  • loony
    loony Community Member Posts: 29 Contributor

    Write a poem it’s a fun interesting expressive form of communication I’m sure itwill be heard

  • loony
    loony Community Member Posts: 29 Contributor

    My poem is primarily meant to raise awareness, I am hoping many of you will be inspired to write blog or put into rhyme your experiences of challenge s. What’s in my poem is from personal experiences so I hope you alll understand that although it’s to raise awareness it has been written by me and only me. Thank you

  • figraspberry41
    figraspberry41 Scope Member Posts: 180 Empowering

    Hi Loony,

    Excellent! A very descriptive poem, thank you for sharing!

    Having been in Healthcare and in the Community, I have seen first hand how difficult it is for wheelchair users or even those with walking aids, whether it be one stick, two sticks or a walker to navigate places, especially in blocks of flats where the design has not been properly considered. I can relate to everything you mentioned (from a retired professional point of view), also from my own experiences now that I require a walking stick myself.

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