I mean, somebody came up with horse
therapy, right? You know what I ‘m talking about. Some people bring around a
saddled-up horse and their mission is to take cripples horseback riding. And
they’ll do whatever it takes to make that happen. Even if three other people
have to ride the horse with you to keep your limp and floppy crippled body from
falling off, they’ll gladly do it. If they have to rig up a saddle contraption
that looks like a giant child’s car seat encased in steel girders to hold you
upright when you ride, they’ll gladly do that, too.
And it seems like the more crippled you
are, and thus the more uncomfortable and terrifying it is for you to ride a
horse, the more the horse therapy people seem bent on trying to sign you up. I
guess they think the things cripples miss most are the things we are least able
to do. They must think that if we find that we really can do those things, sort
of, then maybe we’ll believe that we can do anything.
Well, thanks but no thanks, at least not
for me. I let myself be talked into riding horses back when I was a kid at cripple summer camp and all it did for me was scare the shit out of me. I was glad when
it was over and I could get back in my wheelchair. I still carry that fear to this day and I
don’t wish to expend any energy endeavoring to conquer it. It’s a healthy fear.
If not being able to ride a horse is part of what it means to be a cripple like
me, I’m fine with that part of what it means to be a cripple like me.
So I’m surprised that no one has
concluded that since riding a rollercoaster is probably the thing cripples like
me are least equipped to do, it must be the thing we’re most longing to do. And
so they’d make it their mission to arrange cripple field trips to amusement
parks where they would do whatever it takes to get us all to ride
rollercoasters.
Well, the good news is Medicaid probably
wouldn’t pay for this kind of therapy. So we’ll have a good excuse to get out
of it.
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