この記事は次の言語でも読めます：日本語
Jeff and I watched an old Japanese drama, “Beautiful Life” last weekend.
I think this drama was released more than 10 years ago.
I was a junior high school student at that time, and just thought “if I date with someone, my life will be like this…?”
But this time I felt so many things, because I’m also dating with non-disabled guy now.
The thing I felt the most in the drama was that I am so glad that we could meet each other in US.
In the drama, most of restaurant, cafe, and live house etc. where the hero and heroine tried to go have stairs.
It really shows that “the life in wheelchair is so hard.”
When I started dating with Jeff in US, I have never experienced that kind of difficulties.
I asked Jeff about this, and he said he didn’t feel difficulties either.
We could go out and have fun like other regular couples.
The town we lived in was really small and countryside, and we both didn’t have a car, so we always went out to the restaurant, cafes, movie theater, or park near our campus.
In US, even a small store is a wheelchair accessible.
Therefore, I had never checked the information of place I was going in advance.
If we wanna go to the big city, we always asked our friend to give a ride.
I’ve never experienced that I couldn’t enter a store or use bathroom due to my wheelchair in other states either.
In Japan, I always need to check the information of place in advance.
(Taiwan is more inconvenient for Moon Rider. So I always check too.)
Although I wanna go to somewhere new, I tend to go somewhere I have been to and know that it’s wheelchair friendly place.
Most of new commercial facilities are wheelchair accessible, but I still need to check the information of the facility (elevator etc.) of the closest station to the place.
I wish someday I could go anywhere at anytime without checking the information in advance.
That’s what I really thought from the drama.