{"id":2559,"date":"2017-08-08T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/?p=2559"},"modified":"2017-08-08T07:34:22","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T15:34:22","slug":"disabledcute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/disabledcute\/","title":{"rendered":"#Disabled&#038;Cute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Written by: Farah Musallam<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Farah-in-chair.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2561\" src=\"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Farah-in-chair-180x300.jpg\" alt=\"Farah sitting in her chair showing off the purple detailing on the rims of her chair\" width=\"205\" height=\"342\" \/><\/a>Growing up and using a wheelchair I was self conscious about how different I looked from other kids my age. In elementary school, I was the only student in the entire school that used a wheelchair and I obviously knew I was different, especially when all I wanted was to be like everyone else and to fit in.<\/p>\n<p>Every wheelchair I owned until I was twenty-years-old made me feel so insecure that I wouldn\u2019t want to leave the house with it and would have rather walked and been in pain than have had to sit in a wheelchair in public.<\/p>\n<p>The previous wheelchairs I have owned were always big and clunky and were too much of a hassle to put in my car by myself and I was ready to finally own a wheelchair that I would be confident and feel cute sitting in. When I was 20 years old I bought a Colours wheelchair and customized it to be my own wheelchair built just for me.<\/p>\n<p>I personalized my wheelchair by having my wheels chromed and having light purple incorporated in the chair, but not only did I make my wheelchair a light<a href=\"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Farahs-wheelchair.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2562 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Farahs-wheelchair-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"side view of Farah's wheelchair showing off the purple flame rims \" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Farahs-wheelchair-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Farahs-wheelchair.jpg 503w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a> purple but I also had light purple inserts put onto my wheels that look like flames. By customizing my wheelchair I felt as if I could express myself in a way that not many other people can.<\/p>\n<p>My wheelchair that I have now allows me to go from one place to another without feeling like I am not able to express myself. I remember growing up thinking that I could not associate the words \u201ccute\u201d and \u201cdisability\u201d together because society teaches us that it is undesirable, but with my wheelchair and everyday that I am out using it I hope that I am breaking that stereotype for not only the general public but also wheelchair users like myself.<\/p>\n<p>Interested in customizing your wheelchair? Check out Colours Wheelchairs here: <a href=\"http:\/\/colourswheelchair.com\/\"><strong>http:\/\/colourswheelchair.com\/<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by: Farah Musallam Growing up and using a wheelchair I was self conscious about how different I looked from other kids my age. In elementary school, I was the only student in the entire school that used a wheelchair and I obviously knew I was different, especially when all I wanted was to be&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[5,73,16],"class_list":["post-2559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wheelchairs-and-scooters","tag-independence","tag-individuality","tag-mobility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2559"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2579,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions\/2579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}