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Post by computerchip1 on Dec 30, 2016 12:33:07 GMT
There are various forms of handicaps, like being in a wheelchair or being blind. Well I would identify being without a car as a serious form of handicap in society today, particularly if you live in a suburban or rural community.
How? You must wait for busses in any type of weather, they take longer, and you can’t get everywhere by using them. Chores like grocery shopping, picking up prescriptions, and going to doctors become all day affairs. It is harder to do things with friends.
Most of the people I know with schizophrenia don’t have cars. That is an additional burden on them. I really hope I never have to lose my car and go without it. As I think about this, I realize that having a car is meaningful to me.
For the most part, the whole lower class in America goes without owning a car.
That's rough.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2016 12:58:19 GMT
Just who is "lower class"? $1,000.00 buys a car, registration, and insurance for a month. Even the poorest among us could scrape that up with a bit of determination. Be glad you have the capacity to operate them...that's the most limiting factor. I live in a rural area...you're dead out here without a car.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2016 13:29:50 GMT
Hi CC,
My friend at work is without a car right now. Her car broke down and it's an expensive fix, the engine. One of the other girls at work carts her back and forth. She had breast cancer and had surgery and she had to stop her radiation because she does not have a way there. She told me the other day that she had 20 loads of laundry at home and that someone was taking them to the laundry mat.
Yes not having a car is a form of a disability in a sense.
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Post by David on Dec 31, 2016 11:53:14 GMT
As most of my working days involved driving...
I am quite happy not doing so these days.
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Post by David on Dec 31, 2016 13:14:41 GMT
PS., I must point out though because I live in a town
I have all my amenities with in walking distance...
including a general hospital with its own psychiatric unit .
And even if I have to go to the city it is only 25 minutes away
by metro... the local rapid rail transit system.
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Post by David on Dec 31, 2016 15:07:18 GMT
PS., I have no doubt..
that if I lived in a rural area
where main services weren't
common place..
I'd think differently.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2016 22:57:04 GMT
Hi CC
Yes my car is my luxury, I call it The Beast and I have a love hate relationship with it.
It is a nice car but it is a big expense but at the same time it gives me my freedom, I have to be cleared by the doctor every year.
My little town has always had a train but now I can catch a bus to the train.
Generally I just drive to the station and leave my car there and travel into the city, it takes about an hour, the same as driving but I quite enjoy the trip.
I think I have accepted the fact that I might lose my licence.
I am only one mile from the main street, the walk down is fine but I am high on a hill so the walk home is the problem.
It appears an easy walk on the map but in reality it is a steep hike.
Happy New Years CC its 2017 here already.
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Post by Sketcher2 on Jan 1, 2017 3:06:01 GMT
I do not own a car and I get every where relying on my mom and brother for rides. Sometimes my friends will pick me up for lunch and etc but most of the time I do not drive. This is a disability to me because I cannot get everywhere that I want to go to on my own.
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