Ramblings of a bisexual Christian little person

Two and a half months ago, I had my hips replaced, and for the first time in two years, I am comfortably walking without pain. Before my surgery, I used my scooter or wheelchair most of the time to get around. Now that I'm traveling on legs rather than wheels, people make a lot of assumptions about my attitude towards my wheelchair. Don't get me wrong, I love my new hips. Simple tasks like cooking, doing dishes, laundry, and driving are so much easier without chronic pain. I have more energy and don't have to worry as much about if I'm going to run out of spoons (http://www.butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory/). I no longer have to deal with obnoxious side effects of pain medication. And it feels good to walk, to push my body and discover its new limits; after all, I'm an athlete. But I still don't want you dissing my wheelchair. When people make comments like "wow, you're not in a wheelchair anymore!", it assume

With the Religious Freedom bill passing in Indiana, there's been a lot of discussion surrounding who is welcome in businesses and who can be turned away.  Without entering into this debate, I'd like to take this opportunity to point out something that most people just don't think about. When a store or business isn't accessible to people with disabilities (and the ADA is poorly enforced and doesn't apply to old buildings), business-owners are refusing to serve customers with disabilities.  Is this intentional? Most likely not.  However, the effect is the same.  By requiring customers to manage stairs to enter a building or room, they might as well have a big "NO WHEELCHAIRS ALLOWED" sign on the door.   Most businesses want to be accessible to people with disabilities.  Many employees will often offer help to a potential disabled customer to get them into the building; but offering to carry someone's wheelchair into a building does NOT make that bui