08-26-2010, 10:54 PM
contact the show WHAT WOULD YOU DO
they are always looking for ideas. they did one about forcing help on someone using a wheelchair.
wear a shirt that says if you forcibly try to help me, i will press criminal charges (battery)
Your help may hurt me.
what they are doing is actually illegal...touching a person without their consent is battery.
you would need a weeks worth of T shirts.
I was working as a special ed teacher in a public school. There was a student who was blind. The teacher was always grabbing her by the hand and having people assist her (she was 13). Shortly after I started, the student commented that I knew a lot about working with people who are blind. I let her take me by the elbow and showed her things she could feel instead of just illustrated directions.
She asked me how I knew. I told her I had learned by watching Little House on the Prairie!
another option is to have a digital recording playing.
something like
If I need help I will ask. Please do not Ty to help me without my permission. You may hurt me if you grab me. It is illegal to touch someone without their permission.
and have it playing in a loop
but of course there will be some idiot who will have to grab you just because of the warning
I would seriously call the police.
sadly high schools need a class in common sense including how to interact with people with disabilities or appropriate behavior while shopping, OT leaving shopping carts on the handicapped parking access aisle.
any chance you can have a service dog who blocks people?
if there is a bus route you take often, approach the bus company about putting up informational banners.
maybe you can enlist the foundation for the blind. even if the person doesn't have pain, they shouldn't be grabbed.
you have reason to be concerned that you are being attacked if someone grabs you. you would be within your rights to jab them---or even pepper spray them....at least yell HANDS OFF and hold the pepper spray toward them..one by one, they will get the message.
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