Tag: Snow

Snow Day

On By Katy DalyIn BlogLeave a comment

I’m someone that likes to spend a lot of time in my house, but it’s different when you don’t have a choice in that.

If you ever look at that too closely at my situation, you might come to the conclusion that that is because the world outside is difficult for me. There is a lot of inaccessibility that I face on a daily basis. Far more than I will ever have the time or energy to process let alone write about.

There is just some stuff you just have to ignore to get on with your life. But it’s impossible to ignore everything, and I don’t think I should have to just make everybody else feel better. This is why I started to write about and share my experiences.

Today is one of those days, where I can’t ignore my experiences of inaccessibility. The inaccessibility I’m facing today, and my lack of choice in this, is obvious today. As the picture below shows, today is a snow day.

Image Caption: The ramp outside my home covered in a thin layer of snow.

While I have cropped this photo to protect my safety and not give too much away about where I live. The original photo also showed how my garden and the pavement and road outside my home were also covered in this amount of snow.

This may not seem like a lot of snow, and I completely understand that depending on where you are in the world it actually isn’t. But when you use a wheelchair it doesn’t take a lot of snow to make going outside incredibly dangerous. So I’m going to be stuck in the house.

Now I had no plans to go outside today, I’m actually waiting for something to be delivered. The only thing I really had to do was walk the dogs, but they’ll be fine for one day.

But now I can’t leave the house, and this isn’t just a choice, things feel a lot different.

Choice matters. And just because someone is doing something that you wish you could do, like staying at home, doesn’t mean they’re doing it by choice.

Today the world is inaccessible to me because of the weather. And that means there’s nothing I can do about it, but wait for it to pass. Maybe tomorrow will be different, but we’ll just have to see.

I hope you get to enjoy the weather wherever you are, and have the best day you can, whatever that looks like for you.

Winter.

On By Katy DalyIn Blog, Writing PromptsLeave a comment

What is your favorite season of year? Why?

And I know it might seem weird to comment on the Inaccessibility of the weather, but it is true.

I’m a Christmas girl at heart. Don’t get me wrong I’m not very religious. I just love the pretty lights, to be honest. And snow is really fun to look at, though it tends to be Inaccessible. Snow is pretty but not accessible. I have been stuck in the house multiple times because of snow.

So winter is my favourite season, because you know I love a good hot chocolate. My most accessible season has to be summer. No snow or leaves is blocking the path, no puddles hiding the reality of the pavement.

This is often the case more than you might be realise, at least for me as a disabled person. That just because something is my favourite, doesn’t been it is going to be the most accessible.

And I know, changing a season isn’t something that’s easy to do, or in this case right because there should be snow in winter even if its Inaccessible. But maybe other things can be made accessible so other things that I enjoy can also line up with them being accessible to me. Like swings. Why can’t they be accessible to wheelchair users, or theme parks or beaches? You get the point, anyway.

What about you, what’s your favourite season and why? Also what’s that season like wherever you are?