Post #2261438
2026-05-08 20:41 UTC
Replies (11)
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@pussreboots@sfba.social 2026-05-08 23:28
@CorvidCrone@kolektiva.social Yesterday I complimented a woman on her beautiful cane. It was done up in all sorts of spring colors, an abstract floral pattern that also somehow had 1990s vibe to it. I have never seen one as cool as hers before. (My personal cane is black and rather ordinary)
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@brianvastag@mas.to 2026-05-08 23:31
@CorvidCrone@kolektiva.social yeah true. the only choices i've had in mobility aids is seat color for collapsible seat/walking stick. NIH had some pretty stylish new wheelchairs when I was there though.
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@nikink@aus.social 2026-05-09 01:14
@CorvidCrone@kolektiva.social Disabled people must be punished for being disabled; they must never be allowed to experience joy or otherwise feel like their lives are important and matter.
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@venite@mastodon.nl 2026-05-09 19:45
@CorvidCrone@kolektiva.social it’s starting to change, I know people with very snazzy walkers, my mum has a pretty cool cane, and my compression socks are quite stylish if I say so myself. But it’s the more expressive option if it is an option at all.
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@nicolai@babka.social 2026-05-09 20:36
@CorvidCrone@kolektiva.social lately I saw a lot of quite stylish and technically advanced rollators used by elderly people who did not seem particularly wealthy. Made out of carbon with aerodynamic curved forms and in colours like metallic red with black accents. They looked really good. They have come far since the ones that looked like steel warehouse trolleys in that industrial blue
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@alwirtes@indieweb.social 2026-05-09 20:39
@CorvidCrone@kolektiva.social There recognition of this. Case in point, the sexy walker: https://www.cpr.org/2025/10/27/aging-matters-colorado-sexy-walker/
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@NilaJones@zeroes.ca 2026-05-09 21:44
@CorvidCrone@kolektiva.social The key phrase in this post is, 'I can buy' You can buy fancy soap, and you can buy a purple walker and a bright red wheelchair and magenta compression tights and a flowered cane YOU can But if you want insurance to pay for it, or government health care, they will probably only have one or two options for you to choose from, and all ugly It's not that purple paint costs more than beige paint It is indeed the stigma of disability, and the idea that we should never have fun, and only suffer
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@nixanadoo@mastodon.social 2026-05-10 01:42
@CorvidCrone@kolektiva.social I spent 20ish years wearing a wrist brace on and off for long periods of time. Originally I couldn't afford the black ones, only the tan ones, then eventually the "nicer" light blue. Being able to afford the plain black one was such a luxury and I still grew to hate them. It's the same thing. Why do support things have to look so industrial?
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@dwlt@mastodon.me.uk 2026-05-10 08:28
@CorvidCrone@kolektiva.social it is awful - my wife has a couple of sticks from https://neo-walk.com/ but all kitchen stools are from a hospital ward in the 1950s it seems
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@Silversnapples@mastodonapp.uk 2026-05-10 09:16
@CorvidCrone@kolektiva.social little kids in wheelchairs. Why cant they be for kids. Exactly this. My daughter is 30 and feels like any walking aid she can source is either utility OR cool but ineffective.
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@collective_truth@mastodon.social 2026-05-10 18:41
@CorvidCrone@kolektiva.social So perhaps I'm missing point but will read more but change scent of soap is a lot different to massive metal or energy intensive material. (Also much less sold with is perhaps also a main point - as if people bought those as regular then #pimpmyride (TV series modding old cars) would be what soap mightbe for wheelchairs (soap vs. wheelchair was always a bit of a bad comparison in my eyes) but I get your point a bit... not enough to change manufacture limits though.